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point-devise en · ADJ
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(obsolete) Particular; precise; finicky.
You are rather point-devise in your accoutrements.
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, [Act III, scene ii]:Thus he grew up, in Logic point-device,
Perfect in Grammar, and in Rhetoric nice; […]
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, page 23:I abhor ſuch phanaticall phantaſms, ſuch inſociable and poynt deuiſe companions, […]
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, [Act V, scene i], page 136, column 1:
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point-devise en · NOUN
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(alt-of, alternative) Alternative form of point-device.