{ 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.