point-device

[ point-di-vahys ]

adverb

1. completely; perfectly; exactly.

adjective

1. perfect; precise; scrupulously nice or neat.

point-device

adjective

1. very correct or perfect; precise

adverb

1. to perfection; perfectly; precisely

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

Word History and Origins

Origin of point-device¹

C14: perhaps from old French à point devis to the point arranged

Example Sentences

He liked the extremes between the edged satire and nervous force of the young lawyer whose dress and appearance was always point-device, and whose message was always "Carthago delenda est," and the great sonorous voice of the rougher man who knew the hearts of the mob and how to reach them.

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Inside the office of the chief sat Morgan Wallifarro, point-device as ever, and over his desk the chief bent, listening with an attitude of deference to what he said.

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Why, in this clever age, So "point-device," Is there no beverage Cool, cheap, and nice?

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He thinks that it is borrowed from the labours of the needle, as we have point-lace, so point-device, i. e., point, a stitch, and devise, devised or invented; applied to describe anything uncommonly exact, or worked with the nicety and precision of stitches made or devised by the needle.—Illustrations of Shakspeare, i.

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Great palaces without comparison, Most glorious of outward sight, 188 And within decked point-device,117 More like unto a paradise Than an earthly habitation.

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