Definitions
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
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Examples
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Sir Nathaniel, will you hear an extemporal epitaph on the death of the deer?
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Assist me, some extemporal god of rhyme, for I am sure I shall turn sonnet.
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For their speeches are either premeditate, in verbis conceptis, where nothing is left to invention, or merely extemporal, where little is left to memory.
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Keats had in no small degree the 'fine extemporal vein' with 'invention quicker than his eye.'
The Bibliotaph and Other People Leon H. Vincent
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Assist me some extemporal god of rime, for I am sure I shall turn sonneter.
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Sir Nathaniel, will you hear an extemporal epitaph on the death of the deer? and, to humour the ignorant, I have calld the deer the princess killed, a pricket.
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Holofernes makes an "extemporal epitaph on the death of the deer," which is reminiscent of the "sweet song" delivered to the Queen by "the nymph."
Shakespeare's Lost Years in London, 1586-1592 Arthur Acheson 1897
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Sir Nathaniel, will you hear an extemporal epitaph on the death of the deer?
Shakespeare's Lost Years in London, 1586-1592 Arthur Acheson 1897
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This extemporal comic part seems to have been held essential to dramatic representation, in most countries in Europe, during the infancy of the art.
The Dramatic Works of John Dryden Scott, Walter, Sir 1882
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For their speeches are either premeditate, in _verbis conceptis_, where nothing is left to invention, or merely extemporal, where little is left to memory; whereas in life and action there is least use of either of these, but rather of intermixtures of premeditation and invention, notes and memory.
Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern — Volume 3 Charles Dudley Warner 1864
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