单词 | extemporaneous practice |
释义 | > as lemmasextemporaneous practice 2. Made for the occasion, hastily erected or prepared. Of a medicine: Needing to be prepared at the time of prescription; opposed to officinal. So extemporaneous practice. ΘΚΠ the world > action or operation > advantage > usefulness > use (made of things) > recourse > [adjective] > makeshift extemporal1626 extemporary1631 extempore1694 extemporaneous1725 impromptu1764 makeshift1824 makeshifty1858 spot-made1894 make-do1923 roll-your-own1942 Band-Aid1970 1725 R. Bradley Chomel's Dictionaire Œconomique at Water Germander [It is] somewhat strange, that it is not oftner met with in extemporaneous Practise. 1727 R. Bradley Chomel's Dictionaire Oeconomique (Dublin ed.) at Cup Moss Mosses..have never obtain'd officinal or extemporaneous prescription. 1754 W. Warburton View Bolingbroke's Philos. (1756) ii. 72 His famous book..taken as an extemporaneous cordial,..to support himself under his frequent paroxysms. 1830 R. Southey in Q. Rev. 42 99 This extemporaneous architecture was soon completed. 1872 J. Yeats Growth Commerce 61 He directed his servants to furnish an extemporaneous supper. < as lemmas |
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