| 释义 |
extemporary, a. and n.|ɛkˈstɛmpərərɪ|
[f. extempore a. +-ary.]
A. adj.
1. Unpremeditated; esp. of prayer, discourse, composition, etc.; = extempore a. 2. Occas. of a speaker; † formerly also of the ability to speak.
1610Bp. Hall Apol. Brownists §42 The seruice said in our parish-churches is as good a seruice to God as the extemporary deuotions in your parlours. 1648–9Eikon. Bas. 78 Those men who gloried in their extemporary vein and fluency. 1684Winstanley in Shaks. C. Praise 400 Queen Elizabeth coming into a Grammar-School made this extemporary Verse. 1849Ld. Cockburn Jrnl. II. 244, I have never known a truly extemporary preacher. 1875Emerson Lett. & Soc. Aims vi. 157 Cardinal de Retz..described himself in an extemporary Latin sentence. 1880V. Lee Stud. Italy ii. ii. 27 Italy appears at all times to have produced extemporary poets.
quasi-adv.1629N. C[arpenter] Achitophel 38 David's prayer..proceeded from him extemporary.
†b. nonce-use.
1642Sir T. Browne Relig. Med. i. §33. 78, I believe they [the Angels] have an extemporary knowledge.
†2. Arising at the moment, occasional, casual; sudden, unexpected. Obs.
1639Fuller Holy War i. xxiv. (1840) 46 Being no slip of an extemporary passion, but a studied and premeditated act. a1660Hammond Serm. on Matt. xi. 30 Wks. IV. 480 The most extemporary view of the commands of the decalogue. 1672Shadwell Miser iv, Extemporary love is most commonly as hypocritical as extemporary prayer. 1758Johnson Idler No. 94 ⁋4 A calm delight, such as..is yet easily quitted for some extemporary joy.
3. Made for, or suggested by the occasion; hastily built, framed, prepared, or provided; makeshift; = extempore a. 3.
1631T. May tr. Barclay's Mirr. of Mindes i. 199 They..constitute one common and extemporary home. 1655–60Stanley Hist. Philos. (1701) 349/2 As soon as he landed, they..rear'd an extemporary Altar before him. 1699Evelyn Acetaria (1729) 153 Such Plants..are easily prepar'd for an Extemporary Collation. 1779–81Johnson L.P., Milton Wks. II. 117 The system of extemporary government..fell into fragments. 1841D'Israeli Amen. Lit. (1867) 581 Such elaborate dramatic personages were not extemporary creations thrown off in the heat of the pen. a1864Hawthorne Amer. Note-bks. (1879) II. 146 A sty even more extemporary than the shanties.
†B. n. An extemporary speech or action; an impromptu. Obs.
a1661Fuller Worthies iii. 9 His extemporaries were often better than his præmeditations. 1685Gracian's Courtiers Orac. 52 Extemporaries are the gentile feats of a good discerning.
Hence † extempoˈrarian, one who speaks extempore; one who maintains the propriety of speaking extempore. exˈtemporarily adv., in an extemporary manner; without premeditation. exˈtemporariness, extemporary quality.
1680G. Hickes Spirit Popery 45 Either the Church of England, or the People called Quakers are in the right, and Extemporarians, not Inspired, certainly in the Wrong. 1667H. More Div. Dial. ii. vi. (1713) 108, I have answered as well as I could thus extemporarily. a1754Fielding Demosth. 1st Olynthiac Wks. 1775 IX. 238 Extemporarily, and without premeditation. 1840Mill Diss. & Disc. (1875) I. 400 Extemporarily adapting means to ends. 1671True Nonconf. 245 You endeavour thereby, to impugne extemporariness, multiplicity, and variety of words, in Prayer. |