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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • adjective Extemporaneous.

from The Century Dictionary.

  • Extemporary; extemporaneous.

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

  • adjective obsolete Extemporaneous; unpremeditated.

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  • adjective archaic Extemporaneous.

Etymologies

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition

[Latin extemporālis, from ex tempore; see extempore.]

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From Latin extemporālis ("extemporary", "unrehearsed")

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