No bigger than a point, exact to a point or moment. (Latin, ad punctum.) Hence the angel, describing this earth to Adam, calls it “This spaclous earth, this punctual spot”—i.e. a spot no bigger than a point. (Milton: Paradise Lost, viii. 23.)
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Entry taken from Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, edited by the Rev. E. Cobham Brewer, LL.D. and revised in 1895.
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