POINT-DEVICE

{ Point′–de‐vice″, 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. 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.