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‖ currente calamo, advb. phr.|kəˈrɛnteɪ ˈkæləməʊ|
[L., lit. ‘with the pen running on’.]
Extempore; without deliberation or hesitation.
The actual phr. is not recorded in cl. L.
1776W. Mason Let. 25 Mar. in Walpole's Corr. (1955) XXVIII. 254 What I here send you was written yesterday currente calamo. 1857Trollope Barchester T. II. xiii. 258 His letter..was written, currente calamo, with very little trouble. 1915W. J. Locke Jaffery ix. 112 Then to work, and in another three months, currente calamo, the book would be written. |