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extemporize, v.|ɛkˈstɛmpəraɪz|
[f. extempore adv. + -ize.]
1. intr. To speak extempore. Also, to compose and perform music off-hand; to improvise.
a1717[see extemporizing vbl. n.]. 1775in Ash. 1883A. Phelps Eng. Style vii. 109 Preachers are prone either to extemporize always or to write always. 1887Pall Mall G. 30 Dec. 13/2, I resolved on a certain Sunday night to extemporize.
2. trans. To compose on the spur of the moment; to compose and utter off-hand.
1817Byron Beppo xxxiii, He..could himself extemporise some stanzas. 1841Miall Nonconf. I. 12 The plain, simple Scottish writer, who..ex-temporised the contents of this book. 1880V. Lee Stud. Italy v. 238 Their successors were obliged to leave half of the dialogue to be extemporised.
3. To produce or get up on the spur of the moment; to invent for the occasion.
1858Times 9 Nov., Gunners..cannot be extemporized. 1864Ibid. 24 Dec., The Federals..extemporized a Budget exactly as they extemporized an army. 1874Carpenter Ment. Phys. i. ii. §43 The Amœba..when it has met with a nutritive particle, extemporises a stomach for its reception. 1878R. B. Smith Carthage 197 The canoes which he had extemporised. 1880L. Stephen Pope vii. 159 It was his [Bolingbroke's] special glory to extemporize statesmanship without sacrificing pleasure.
Hence exˈtemporized ppl. a., in senses of the verb. exˈtemporizer, one who speaks or composes extempore. exˈtemporizing vbl. n., also attrib. and ppl. a.
1856Froude Hist. Eng. I. 61 It was an extemporized allegory. 1868Freeman Norm. Conq. (1876) II. viii. 211 The extemporized jurisprudence of a later age. 1812Religionism 62 Th' extemporizer's art who knows, Than pray had rather hear him blow his nose. 1852Meanderings of Mem. I. 47 Matter to sustain The staggering extemporizer's pain. 1692South Serm. (1697) II. 159 The Extemporizing faculty is never more out of its Element, than in the Pulpit. 1644Milton Areop. (Arb.) 56 The cursory eyes of a temporizing and extemporizing licenser. 1880Grove Dict. Mus. I. 499/2 Extemporizing machine, an invention for printing the notes of an extemporaneous performance, by means of mechanism connected with the keyboard of a pianoforte or organ. |