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point-device
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point-device, 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. [1913 Webster]
"You are rather point-devise in your accouterments."
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"Thus he grew up, in logic point-devise,
Perfect in grammar, and in rhetoric nice." [1913 Webster]
Perfect in grammar, and in rhetoric nice." [1913 Webster]
point-device, adv.
Exactly. Shak. [1913 Webster]
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