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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.

The action of a horse in rearing repeatedly and dangerously.

A system of philosophy originated by M. Auguste Comte, which deals only with positives. It excludes from philosophy everything but the natural phenomena or properties of knowable things, together with their invariable relations of coexistence and succession, as occurring in time and space. Such relations are denominate…

A believer in positivism. -- a.

Same as Poledavy. [Obs.]

A proof for final revision.

To foresee. [R.]

Foresight; foreknowledge; prescience. H. Spencer.

rought together or arranged in advance; measures taken beforehand; preparation. Making provision for the relief of strangers. Bacon.

Of the nature of a provision; serving as a provision for the time being; -- used of partial or temporary arrangements; as, a provisional government; a provisional treaty.

By way of provision for the time being; temporarily. Locke.

Provisional. Burke.

an agreement, contract, law, grant, or the like; as, the contract was impaired by its proviso. He doth deny his prisoners, But with proviso and exception. Shak.

One who provides; a purveyor. [Obs.] "The chief provisor of our horse." Ford.

In a provisory manner; conditionally; subject to a proviso; as, to admit a doctrine provisorily. Sir W. Hamilton.

The office or position of a provisor. [R.] J. Webster.

Of the nature of a proviso; containing a proviso or condition; conditional; as, a provisory clause.

To seize and carry away by violence; to snatch by force. These hairs which thou dost ravish from my chin Will quicken, and accuse thee. Shak. This hand shall ravish thy pretended right. Dryden.

One who ravishes (in any sense).

Rapturous; transporting.