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temporize, v.|ˈtɛmpəraɪz|
[a. F. temporiser (14–15th c. in Hatz.-Darm.) to pass one's time, wait one's time, = med.L. temporizāre = temporāre to put off the time, delay (Du Cange), It. temporeggiare to observe, obey, or follow times (Florio), f. L. tempus, tempor- time: see -ize.]
1. intr. To adopt some course for the time or occasion; hence, to adapt oneself or conform to the time and circumstances; to ‘trim’.
[1555–63: cf. temporizer 1.] 1579G. Harvey Letter-bk. (Camden) 69, I pray the spare the world And give men leave to temporize. 1617Moryson Itin. ii. 51 Most part of the rest temporised with the State, openly professing obedience..but secretly relieuing the rebels. 1752Fielding Amelia ix. ix, How do you expect to rise in the church, if you cannot temporise, and give in to the opinion of your supporters? 1849Macaulay Hist. Eng. viii. II. 298 Penn, therefore, exhorted the fellows.. to submit, or at least to temporise. 1877Froude Short Stud. (1883) IV. i. iii. 38 The pope..had privately advised Becket to avoid a quarrel with the king and to temporise.
†b. trans. Obs. rare.
1600[see temporized below].
†2. intr. To let time pass, spend time, ‘mark time’; to procrastinate; to delay or wait for a more favourable moment. Also with it. Obs. exc. as in 3.
1579–80North Plutarch (1676) 358 Charging them they should not stir, and only to temporize and forbear, untill the Enemies came within a stones cast of them. 1600Holland Livy xxiv. xiii. 517 So Anniball contrariwise temporised, being not so readie now to credite the Nolanes. 1633T. Stafford Pac. Hib. i. xiii. (1821) 147 Having temporized all this while. 1694Motteux Rabelais v. xviii. (1737) 76 We lay by and run adrift, that is, in a Landlopers Phrase, we temporis'd it. 1696Phillips (ed. 5), Temporize..also, to delay, to take time to consider.
3. intr. To act, negotiate, parley, treat, deal (with a person, etc.), so as to gain time.
1586J. Hooker Hist. Irel. in Holinshed II. 118/1 They did yet so temporise with them, as they gained time, till further order might be taken. 1586Day Eng. Secretary i. (1625) A iij b, My prouision is too small to perfect on a sudden so spacious a ground-worke, I will temporize with those duties which..by time may be in me supported. 1871Freeman Norm. Conq. IV. xviii. 133 William was still temporizing with Stigand; the time for his degradation was not yet come.
4. To negotiate, to discuss terms; to arrange or make terms, to effect a compromise (with a person, etc., between persons or parties).
1579Fenton Guicciard. i. (1599) 4 Knowing discreetely howe to temporise betweene Princes confederate. 1586J. Hooker Hist. Irel. in Holinshed II. 142/1 His lordship granted hir request, and temporised with the earle. 1636E. Dacres tr. Machiavel's Disc. Livy I. 137 The safer course is, to temporise with it, then strive forthwith to extinguish it. 1823Scott Peveril xxxvi, I have behaved like a fool..; I ought to have temporised with this singular being, learned the motives of its interference, and availed myself of its succour. 1863Kinglake Crimea I. iii. 48 This calm Mahometan..strove to temporise as well as he could betwixt the angry Churches.
†b. trans. ? To negotiate, manage, accomplish (a result). Obs. rare.
1596Warner Alb. Eng. x. lvii. (1612) 251 Of ancient Peeres, of valiant Men, great Lords, and Wise men all, By forced Warre, or fraudfull peace to temporize the fall.
¶5. trans. To provide for the time, improvise, extemporize. (erroneous use.)
1880J. Nicol Poems & Songs 41 No fire nor firing, goblet, pan, nor pot Nor wherewithal to temporize a bed.
Hence ˈtemporized ppl. a.; † ˈtemporizement (obs. nonce-wd.), = temporization 1.
1600W. Watson Decacordon (1602) 20 Whether then all religious zeale, being turned into temporized platformes, to cast omnia pro tempore, nihil pro veritate. Ibid. 33 [The Jesuits] were vnworthy the name of temporized statists..if they should not denie all and change their opinions, agreeing to time, person and place. 1647M. Hudson Div. Right Govt. Ep. Ded. 5, I hope..[to] vindicate the innocency of my thoughts from all such unworthy Sycophancy and Temporizement. |