point-devise
English
Noun
point-devise
- Alternative form of point-device
Adjective
point-devise (comparative more point-devise, superlative most point-devise)
- (obsolete) Particular; precise; finicky.
- c. 1595–1596 (date written), William Shakespeare, “Loues Labour’s Lost”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, OCLC 606515358, [Act V, scene i], page 136, column 1:
- I abhor ſuch phanaticall phantaſms, ſuch inſociable and poynt deuiſe companions, […]
- c. 1598–1600 (date written), William Shakespeare, “As You Like It”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, OCLC 606515358, [Act III, scene ii]:
- You are rather point-devise in your accoutrements.
- 1873 August, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, “[I. Tales of a Wayside Inn.] The Student’s Tale. Emma and Eginhard.”, in Aftermath, Boston, Mass.: James R[ipley] Osgood and Company, late Ticknor & Fields, and Fields, Osgood, & Co., OCLC 15121058, page 23:
- Thus he grew up, in Logic point-device, / Perfect in Grammar, and in Rhetoric nice; […]
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Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for point-devise in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913)