point-device Meaning, Definition & Usage

Point`-de*vice", Point`-de*vise" adjective (Also<
  • Point-device
  • Point-devise
)
Etymology
OE. at point devis; at at + point point, condition + devis exact, careful, OF. devis fixed, set. See Device.
Definitions
  1. Uncommonly nice and exact; precise; particular.
    You are rather point-devise in your accouterments. Shak.
    Thus he grew up, in logic point-devise, Perfect in grammar, and in rhetoric nice. Longfellow.
Point`-de*vice", Point`-de*vise" adverb (Also<
  • Point-device
  • Point-devise
)
Definitions
  1. Exactly. Obs. Shak.

Webster 1913