Hypertext Webster Gateway: "extemporize"
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
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.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
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.
From WordNet (r) 1.7 (wn)
extemporize
v : perform without preparation [syn: {improvise}, {improvize},
{ad-lib}, {extemporise}]
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