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point-device
[ point-di-vahys ]
adverb
- completely; perfectly; exactly.
adjective
- perfect; precise; scrupulously nice or neat.
point-device
adjective
- very correct or perfect; precise
adverb
- to perfection; perfectly; precisely
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Word History and Origins
Origin of point-device1
1325–75; Middle English at point devis arranged to a point, i.e., to a nicety, to perfection; device
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Word History and Origins
Origin of point-device1
C14: perhaps from old French à point devis to the point arranged
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Example Sentences
As tapestry Pricked out by women's needles; point-device As saints in fitted haloes.
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A pretty, pithy, and most pleasant project!Who would not strain a point of neighbourhoodFor such a point device?
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He appeared after a while, extremely correct and point device, grave but polite.
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Officers, some only recognizable by the Sam Browne belt, others spruce and point-device, passed by.
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He is a little too point device, too obviously got up for the occasion!
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