Point-de-vîçe or Point-de-vise', a.

a. [From Fr. point, lace, and devisé, furnished with a device or emblem.] Uncommonly nice and exact; precise; particular. [Obs.]

You are rather point-devise in your accouterments. Shak.

“It is difficult to ascertain the origin of this phrase. It appears like French; but I can find no authority in that language for a point devise, though it is perfectly analogous to a point nomme, which is a very current form. Mr. Douce refers it to needle-work, and mentions point-lace as similar. Mr. Gifford thinks it must have been a mathematical phrase. . . . In the following example, it is used as if formed from the English word device:—

If the dapper priest Be but as cunning point in his device. B. Jonson.” Nares.