point-devise

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point-devise - Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 :

  Point-device \Point`-de*vice"\, Point-devise \Point`-de*vise"\,
     adv.
     Exactly. [Obs.] --Shak.
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  Point-device \Point`-de*vice"\, Point-devise \Point`-de*vise"\,
     a. [OE. at point devis; at at + point point, condition +
     devis exact, careful, OF. devis fixed, set. See Device.]
     Uncommonly nice and exact; precise; particular.
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           You are rather point-devise in your accouterments.
                                                    --Shak.
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           Thus he grew up, in logic point-devise,
           Perfect in grammar, and in rhetoric nice. --Longfellow.
     [1913 Webster] Point-device