Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun A nice point of form or ceremony; a punctilio.
  • noun In fencing, the point of the sword or foil; also, a blow with the point. See point.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun A nice point of form or ceremony.
  • noun A term applied to the point in fencing.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • noun obsolete A particular point of form or ceremony.
  • noun fencing The point of the sword in fencing.

Etymologies

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See punto.

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Examples

  • He also wrote a number of shorter, independent treatises on controversial philosophical topics, such as the Tractatus de relationibus [Treatise on Relations], Tractatus de universalibus [Treatise on Universals], Tractatus de consequentiis [Treatise on Consequences], and Quaestio de puncto [Question on Points].

    John Buridan Zupko, Jack 2006

  • Scindunt enim minutatim in scutella cum sale et aqua, aliam enim salsam non faciunt, et tunc cum puncto cultelli vel furcinula, quas proprias faciunt ad hoc, cum qua solemus comedere pira et poma cocta in vino, porrigunt cuilibet circumstantium buccellam vnam vel duas, secundum multitudinem comedentium.

    The iournal of frier William de Rubruquis a French man of the order of the minorite friers, vnto the East parts of the worlde. An. Dom. 1253. 2004

  • Scindunt enim minutatim in scutella cum sale et aqua, aliam enim salsam non faciunt, et tunc cum puncto cultelli vel furcinula, quas proprias faciunt ad hoc, cum qua solemus comedere pira et poma cocta in vino, porrigunt cuilibet circumstantium buccellam vnam vel duas, secundum multitudinem comedentium.

    The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation 2003

  • Cibum vnius eorum incidit, et alius accipit cum puncto cultelli morsellos, et vnicuique prebet, quibusdam plus, quibusdam minus, secundum quod plus vel minus volunt eos honorare.

    The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation 2003

  • Eodem temporis puncto, quo haec res argumentata fuit inter militem et tympanistam, disceptabatur ibidem tubicine et uxore sua qui tunc accesserunt, et peregrino praetereunte, restiterunt.

    The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman 2003

  • Eodem temporis puncto, quo haec res argumentata fuit inter militem et tympanistam, disceptabatur ibidem tubicine et uxore sua qui tunc accesserunt, et peregrino praetereunte, restiterunt.

    The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman 2003

  • "Pro solo puncto caruit Martinus Asello," yet a blunder is a sad thing, especially when the person who is supposed to commit it attempts to correct others.

    Notes and Queries, Number 51, October 19, 1850 Various

  • "Punctum est quod vivimus, et adhuc puncto minus."

    Plutarch's Morals 46-120? Plutarch

  • 'Discedo Alcaeus puncto illius; ille meo quis? quis nisi Callimachus?

    The Student's Companion to Latin Authors Thomas Ross Mills

  • He instructs the masters to lecture regularly according to the statutes and to explain the text of Aristotle, "de puncto in punctum," and, holding that fear and reverence are the life-blood of scholastic discipline, he repeats an injunction which we find in 1336, that the students in Arts are to sit not on benches or raised seats, but on (p.  144) the floor, "ut occasio superbiae a juvenibus secludatur."

    Life in the Medieval University Robert S. Rait

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