Found 2 items, similar to Extemporize.
English → English (WordNet)
Definition: extemporize
extemporize
v 1: 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]
2: perform without preparation;
“he extemporized a speech at
the wedding” [syn:
improvise,
improvize,
ad-lib,
extemporise]
English → English (gcide)
Definition: Extemporize
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.
[1913 Webster]
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.
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Themistocles . . . was of all men the best able to
extemporize the right thing to be done. --Jowett
(Thucyd. ).
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Pitt, of whom it was said that he could extemporize a
Queen's speech --Lord
Campbell.
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