Crossword clues for extemporise
extemporise
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 intransitive English) To do something in a makeshift way. 3 (context transitive English) To make or create extempore. 4 (context transitive music English) To compose extemporaneously or improvise. 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 intransitive English) To do something in a makeshift way. 3 (context transitive English) To make or create extempore. 4 (context transitive music English) To compose extemporaneously or improvise.
WordNet
v. perform without preparation; "he extemporized a speech at the wedding" [syn: improvise, improvize, ad-lib, extemporize]
Usage examples of "extemporise".
Latimer showed a belated firmness on the subject of Hartlepool Helen, and Vera withdrew without pressing the point, having first settled the gamecock on his extemporised perch and taken an affectionate farewell of the pigling.
Was she an helpmeet for a black-letter man, who talked with the Fathers in his daily walks, could extemporise Latin hexameters, and dream in Greek.
This little extemporised bivouac, as it were, with her domestics, delighted the young belle.
I would deliver an extemporised lecture, entirely without notes, on some aspect of the decline of manners and morality in society: unmarried mothers, hire purchase, lack of civility in daily life, association footballers earning more than ten pounds a week plus shoplifting, of course.
So every day they used to sit down to breakfast and dine together at a little table contrived out of a packing-case, and placed under an extemporised tent, for all the world like a young couple picnicking on their honeymoon.
She spent with him in it, while explanations continued to hang back, twenty minutes that, in their sudden drop of danger, affected her, though there were neither buns nor ginger-beer, like an extemporised expensive treat.
In the middle of this extemporised kraal was a long, low mound, which, as I learned afterwards, contained the dead who fell in the attack on the house.
Spread on the jury foremast these enabled them to get the Pretty Jane before the trade wind, to creep along at a mile an hour while they set to work on extemporising aftersails that doubled her speed.
This was all very vexing, but it was responding well, playing it by the book where possible and extemporising sensibly but with all due urgency where it had to.
Had Thénardier, illuminated by that fearful thirst for liberty which changes precipices into ditches, iron gratings into osier screens, a cripple into an athlete, an old gouty into a bird, stupidity into instinct, instinct into intelligence, and intelligence into genius, had Thénardier invented and extemporised a third method?
Your deeds got into extemporised strong-rooms made of kitchens and sculleries, and fretted all the fat out of their parchments into the banking-house air.