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CIDE DICTIONARY

point-devise

CIDE DICTIONARY

point-devisea. [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."  [1913 Webster]
    "Thus he grew up, in logic point-devise,
    Perfect in grammar, and in rhetoric nice.
    "  [1913 Webster]
point-deviseadv. 
     Exactly.  Shak.  [1913 Webster]

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