extemporaneousness

[Eng. extemporaneous; -ne .) The quality or state of being extemporaneous or unpremeditated. ěx-těm-po-ra-ri-ly, adv . [Eng.extemporary -ly .] Without premeditation; extemporaneously. ěx-těm'-pô-ra-ry, a. [Eng. extempor ( e ); -ary .] 1. Made, uttered, or done without premeditation; extemporaneous. "Filling up a long portion of time with extemporary prayer."-Knox: Winter Evenings, ev. 23. 2. Made or done for the time or the occasion. extemporary decrees." -Locke : Civil Government. "To govern by established standing laws, and not by ěx-těm-pô-rě, adv., a. & s. [Lat.ex=out, from, and tempore, ablat. of temp us =time.] A. As adv .: Without premeditation, or previous thought or study; extemporaneously; without preparation. "Catch some words which presently and extempore they reduce and contrive into verse."-P. Holland : Plutarch, p. 977. B. As adj .: Made, done, or uttered extempore; extemporaneous. "In that singing of extempore hymns."-Locke: On 1 Corinth . xiv. (Note 20.) *C. As subst.: Extemporaneous speaking or com IMG:content-1296.png:[blocks in formation] A. Trans .: Τo utter or compose without previous study or thought; to do or perform extemporaneously; to make up on the moment. B. In trans.: To speak extemporaneously; to discourse without previous study or thought. "The extemporizing faculty is never more out of its element than in the pulpit; though even here it is much more excusable in a sermon than in a prayer." -South: Sermons, vol. ii., ser. 3.