Dictionary.com
definitions
  • synonyms

point-device

[point-di-vahys]Archaic.
adverb
  1. completely; perfectly; exactly.
Show More
adjective
  1. perfect; precise; scrupulously nice or neat.
Show More

Origin of point-device

1325–75; Middle English at point devis arranged to a point, i.e., to a nicety, to perfection; see device
Dictionary.com Unabridged Based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2018

Examples from the Web for point-device

Historical Examples

  • Hark you, there are the trumpets sounding for dinner, and you not point-device for the banquet-hall!

    Wager of Battle

    Henry William Herbert

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

    The Rough Road

    William John Locke

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

British Dictionary definitions for point-device

point-device

adjective
  1. very correct or perfect; precise
Show More
adverb
  1. to perfection; perfectly; precisely
Show More

Word Origin

C14: perhaps from old French à point devis to the point arranged
Collins English Dictionary - Complete & Unabridged 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012