{ 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. Longfellow.