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Definition of Punctual
1. Adjective. Acting or arriving or performed exactly at the time appointed. "Punctual payment"
Definition of Punctual
1. a. Consisting in a point; limited to a point; unextended.
Definition of Punctual
1. Adjective. prompt or on time ¹
2. Adjective. (mathematics) Existing as a point or series of points ¹
3. Adjective. (linguistics) Expressing momentary action that has no duration ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Punctual
1. being on time [adj]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Punctual
Literary usage of Punctual
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Living Age by Making of America Project, Eliakim Littell, Robert S. Littell (1868)
"Do be punctual, now. Why ain't you punctual ? I'd do anything for you if you were
... I wish you'd be punctual, and then we'd be the best of friends. ..."
2. Prideaux's Precedents in Conveyancing: With Dissertations on Its Law and by Frederick Prideaux, John Whitcombe (1889)
"Tn. MORTGAGE in FEE wifh PROVISIONS for REDUCING the rate of INTEREST >n case of
punctual PAYMENT, and for continuing the LOAN*/or a TIME CERTAIN (a). ..."
3. 'Way Down East; Or, Portraitures of Yankee Life by Seba Smith (1857)
"PETER punctual. The names used in the following narrative are of course fie tit Lous
... SOME few years ago, Peter punctual, an honest and industrious young ..."
4. A Select Glossary of English Words Used Formerly in Senses Different from by Richard Chenevix Trench (1865)
"It had once a wider use; a ' punctual' narration being a narration which entered
into minuter points of detail. Truly I thought I could not ..."
5. A Treatise on the Law of Mortgage by Richard Holmes Coote, William Wyllys Mackeson, Henry Arthur Smith (1884)
"Agreement for reduction of intercut on punctual payment, A distinction has been
taken, and is now well established, between an agreement, that the rate of ..."
6. Commentaries on American Law by James Kent, Charles M. Barnes (1884)
"ties, it would be impossible for courts of justice to uphold credit, or to exact
the punctual performance of contracts. ..."
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