point-device

[ point-di-vahys ]

Phonetic (Standard)IPA

adverb

point-device

1325–75; Middle English at point devis arranged to a point, i.e., to a nicety, to perfection; device

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

As tapestry Pricked out by women's needles; point-device As saints in fitted haloes.

A pretty, pithy, and most pleasant project!Who would not strain a point of neighbourhoodFor such a point device?

He appeared after a while, extremely correct and point device, grave but polite.

Officers, some only recognizable by the Sam Browne belt, others spruce and point-device, passed by.

He is a little too point device, too obviously got up for the occasion!

April 23, 2024inveterate

[in-vet-er-it ]

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