单词 | extemporize |
释义 | extemporizev. 1. intransitive. To speak extempore. Also, to compose and perform music off-hand; to improvise. ΘΚΠ the mind > language > speech > speak [verb (intransitive)] > improvise or ad lib to speak at one's (also the) fingers' end1607 extemporize1775 improvisate1817 improvisatorize1828 ad-lib1910 society > leisure > the arts > music > performing music > perform music [verb (intransitive)] > improvise or extemporize extemporize1775 improvise1788 impromptu1802 fantasy1840 fake1895 ad-lib1910 busk1934 jam1935 noodle1937 1694 [see extemporizing n. and adj. at Derivatives]. 1775 in J. Ash New Dict. Eng. Lang. 1883 A. Phelps Eng. Style vii. 109 Preachers are prone either to extemporize always or to write always. 1887 Pall Mall Gaz. 30 Dec. 13/2 I resolved on a certain Sunday night to extemporize. 2. transitive. To compose on the spur of the moment; to compose and utter off-hand. ΘΚΠ the mind > language > speech > speak, say, or utter [verb (transitive)] > improvise or ad lib (about) extemporize1818 improvisatorize1828 ad-lib1911 society > leisure > the arts > literature > poetry > compose (poetry) [verb (transitive)] > improvise improvisoa1768 improvise1808 extemporize1818 to strike off1821 1818 Ld. Byron Beppo xxxii. 17 He..could himself extemporize some stanzas. 1841 E. Miall in Nonconformist 1 12 The plain, simple Scottish writer, who..ex-temporised the contents of this book. 1880 ‘V. Lee’ Stud. 18th Cent. Italy v. 238 Their successors were obliged to leave half of the dialogue to be extemporised. 3. To produce or get up on the spur of the moment; to invent for the occasion. ΘΚΠ the mind > mental capacity > perception or cognition > faculty of imagination > inventive or creative faculty > contrive, devise, or invent [verb (transitive)] > for the occasion extemporize1858 1858 Times 9 Nov. Gunners..cannot be extemporized. 1864 Times 24 Dec. The Federals..extemporized a Budget exactly as they extemporized an army. 1874 W. B. Carpenter Princ. Mental Physiol. i. ii. §43 The Amœba..when it has met with a nutritive particle, extemporises a stomach for its reception. 1878 R. B. Smith Carthage 197 The canoes which he had extemporised. 1880 L. Stephen Alexander Pope vii. 159 It was his [Bolingbroke's] special glory to extemporize statesmanship without sacrificing pleasure. Derivatives exˈtemporized adj. in senses of the verb. ΘΚΠ the mind > will > intention > unintentional or unplanned character > [adjective] > unplanned suddena1300 unpremeditate1551 extemporal1570 unpurposed1570 unmeditated1576 extemporate1590 unpremeditated1597 unplotted1598 extemporary1610 extemporanean1621 extempory1623 impremeditate1647 unthought1648 unresolved1649 extemporate1651 incogitate1652 unprojected1653 indeliberate1655 extemporaneous1656 indeliberated1656 autoschediastical1662 casual1667 offhanda1668 undiscourseda1670 extemporany1673 unplanned1775 impromptu1789 on (also upon) the spur of the moment (or occasion, etc.)1801 autoschediastic1809 impromptuary1827 improvised1833 extemporized1856 spontaneous1856 unconsidered1876 undevised1894 lashed-up1920 ad-libbed1933 willy-nilly1933 off the cuff1948 society > leisure > the arts > literature > poetry > poem or piece of poetry > other types of poem > [adjective] > improvised suddena1616 extemporean1624 extempore1639 improviso1753 impromptu1789 extemporized1856 1856 J. A. Froude Hist. Eng. I. 61 It was an extemporized allegory. 1868 E. A. Freeman Hist. Norman Conquest (1876) II. viii. 211 The extemporized jurisprudence of a later age. exˈtemporizer n. one who speaks or composes extempore. ΘΚΠ the mind > language > speech > one who speaks > [noun] > improviser extemporarian1680 extemporist1812 extemporizer1812 ad-libber1921 1812 Religionism 62 Th' extemporizer's art who knows, Than pray had rather hear him blow his nose. 1852 Meanderings of Memory I. 47 Matter to sustain The staggering extemporizer's pain. exˈtemporizing n. and adj. ΘΚΠ the mind > language > speech > [noun] > unrehearsed or improvised speaking extemporizing1644 extemporalness1656 extemporariness1671 extemporaneousness1764 extemporization1860 ad-libbing1918 the mind > language > speech > [adjective] > speaking > able or given to speak reasonablea1387 quick and queathing?a1475 articulate1531 extemporal1588 extemporanean1621 extemporizing1644 expressible1661 speakable1667 extemporaneous1812 extempore1817 society > leisure > the arts > music > performing music > [noun] > improvising extempore1610 extemporizing1644 improvisation1777 improvising1798 extemporization1860 get-off1932 noodling1937 1644 J. Milton Areopagitica 21 The cursory eyes of a temporizing and extemporizing licenser. 1694 R. South 12 Serm. II. 159 The Extemporizing faculty is never more out of its Element, than in the Pulpit. 1880 G. Grove Dict. Music I. 499/2 Extemporizing machine, an invention for printing the notes of an extemporaneous performance, by means of mechanism connected with the keyboard of a pianoforte or organ. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1894; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < v.1644 |
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