資料來源 : Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

Point-device \Point`-de*vice"\, Point-devise \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.           --Longfellow.

Point-device \Point`-de*vice"\, Point-devise \Point`-de*vise"\,
   adv.
   Exactly. [Obs.] --Shak.