Crossword clues for extemporize
extemporize
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Extemporize \Ex*tem"po*rize\, v. t. To do, make, or utter extempore or off-hand; to prepare in great haste, under urgent necessity, or with scanty or unsuitable materials; as, to extemporize a dinner, a costume, etc.
Themistocles . . . was of all men the best able to
extemporize the right thing to be done.
--Jowett
(Thucyd. ).
Pitt, of whom it was said that he could extemporize a
Queen's speech
--Lord
Campbell.
Extemporize \Ex*tem"po*rize\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. Extemporized; p. pr. & vb. n. Extemporizing.] To speak extempore; especially, to discourse without special preparation; to make an offhand address.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1640s (implied in extemporizing), "to speak ex tempore," from extempore + -ize. Related: Extemporized.
Wiktionary
alt. 1 (context intransitive English) To do something, particularly to perform or speak, without prior planning or thought; to act in an impromptu manner; to improvise. 2 (context transitive English) To do, create, improvise, adapt, or devise in an impromptu or spontaneous manner. vb. 1 (context intransitive English) To do something, particularly to perform or speak, without prior planning or thought; to act in an impromptu manner; to improvise. 2 (context transitive English) To do, create, improvise, adapt, or devise in an impromptu or spontaneous manner.
WordNet
v. manage in a makeshift way; do with whatever is at hand; "after the hurricane destroyed our house, we had to improvise for weeks" [syn: improvise]
perform without preparation; "he extemporized a speech at the wedding" [syn: improvise, improvize, ad-lib, extemporise]
Usage examples of "extemporize".
The wine runs into pitchers, washing-basins, shards, chambervessels, and other extemporized receptacles.
Some English soldiers of the Ninth regiment are hastily digging a grave there with extemporized tools.
Refreshments in profusion are handed round, and the extemporized cathedral resolves itself into a gigantic cafe of persons of distinction under the Empire.
Adrian had to extemporize, that the baronet had gone down to Wales on pressing business, and would be back in a week or so.
He shifted through the pages as Laevo began to extemporize, and eventually found the place and fed the forgetful actor his line.
Chints, who had been so preoccupied with the Chints side of the affair, and the impression they were making on the extemporized audience, that she had no eyes for Miss Burton.
There were many hollows and projections along its sides rudely fit for serving as seats, to which had been added a number of forms extemporized of planks and thwarts.
So he cleaned the forged notes out of the file, extemporized a mask out of some carbon paper and ran out to show the woman who was waiting in the outer office that the murderer was a one-eyed man.
He extemporized: "I shall build us a cabin, and Davyd another—a decent distance off!
Having neither bit nor bridle, Oak and Coggan extemporized the former by passing the rope in each case through the animal’s mouth and looping it on the other side.
Tufts and garlands of green foliage decorated the walls, beams, and extemporized chandeliers, and immediately opposite to Oak a rostrum had been erected, bearing a table and chairs.
Under the shadow of this extemporized lightning conductor he felt himself comparatively safe.
He extemporized: “I shall build us a cabin, and Davyd another—a decent distance off!
The other Tiffnakis offered exaggerated and increas ingly fantastical suggestions, ineluctably reminding O'Brien of the scene in the holoplay Cyrano de Bergerac, where the seventeenth-century courtier swordsman extemporizes twelve methods of flying from Earth to the moon (including a sedan chair drawn by geese and a hot-air balloon).
The other Tiffnakis offered exaggerated and increasingly fantastical suggestions, ineluctably reminding O'Brien of the scene in the holoplay Cyrano de Bergerac, where the seventeenth-century courtierswordsman extemporizes twelve methods of flying from Earth to the moon (including a sedan chair drawn by geese and a hot-air balloon).