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单词 extemporize
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extemporizev.

Brit. /ᵻkˈstɛmpərʌɪz/, /ɛkˈstɛmpərʌɪz/, U.S. /ɪkˈstɛmpəˌraɪz/, /ɛkˈstɛmpəˌraɪz/
Etymology: < extempore adv. + -ize suffix.
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).
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