Definitionadj. with little or no preparation or forethought
Last update: August 7, 2015
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The translation was no doubt originally extemporary, and varied with the individual translators, but its form gradually became fixed and was ultimately written down. [Please select]
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The reading was followed by the General Confession, the Absolution and a brief extemporary prayer, concluding with the Lord's Prayer. [Please select]
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Perceiving that nobody opposed my design, I took the pen and wrote six sorts of hands used among the Arabians, and each specimen contained an extemporary verse or poem in praise of the sultan. [Please select]
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Twenty-one of his orations have come down to us, and they are excessively polished and elaborated; but they were written to be read, they were not extemporary. [Please select]
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He never trusted to the impulse of the occasion; he did not believe in extemporary eloquence any more than Daniel Webster, who said there is no such thing. [Please select]
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"Will not you stay a moment," asked Phœbus, "and hear me turn the pretty and touching story of Proserpina into extemporary verses." [Please select]
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"Will not you stay a moment," asked Phoebus, "and hear me turn the pretty and touching story of Proserpina into extemporary verses." [Please select]
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Duche, unexpectedly to every body, struck out into an extemporary prayer which filled the bosom of every man present. [Please select]
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It has served an extemporary apprenticeship; it wants no drilling; it never ranks in the awkward squad; it has no left hand, no deaf ear, no blind side. [Please select]
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