Definitions
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- verb Third-person singular simple present indicative form of
extemporize .
Etymologies
Sorry, no etymologies found.
Support
Help support Wordnik (and make this page ad-free) by adopting the word extemporizes.
Examples
-
Since then, Mr. Levin has been improvising in a variety of settings, including one performance in which he improvised the endings of unfinished works by Schubert, and concerts in which he invites audience members to submit musical themes during the intermission on which he then extemporizes.
-
He has a history of making really boneheaded mistakes when he extemporizes.
So what did you think of Sarah Palin? Ann Althouse 2008
-
They are tied together with a shared mythology and history which Pratchett extemporizes with the skill of a great jazz musician.
Not With a Bang But With a Thud! or, Whither Discworld Abigail Nussbaum 2006
-
They are tied together with a shared mythology and history which Pratchett extemporizes with the skill of a great jazz musician.
Archive 2006-01-01 Abigail Nussbaum 2006
-
And what he's doing to kind of make this speech as much as possible his very own is that he will take the most recent draft, take the rewrites that he's done on the copies of those texts and read them into a tape recorder, and sometimes extemporizes a little bit on things that he has jotted out or notes that he has made.
Press Briefing By Mike Mccurry ITY National Archives 1997
-
If he extemporizes a song or hymn, it is lucky if it becomes a favorite of the camp.
-
Jacques takes the book and reads over the Latin; then he extemporizes:
The Youth of Jefferson A Chronicle of College Scrapes at Williamsburg, in Virginia, A.D. 1764 Anonymous
-
The amba, which is merely a gelatinous mass, when it takes its food, extemporizes a stomach for the occasion.
Hygienic Physiology : with Special Reference to the Use of Alcoholic Drinks and Narcotics Joel Dorman Steele
-
` Bolivia extemporizes mackerel; borax esteems polygamy; sausages wither in the east.
Roughing It 1871
-
Polly comes out, and extemporizes her usual seat to "consult me" about matters while I work.
The Complete Project Gutenberg Writings of Charles Dudley Warner Charles Dudley Warner 1864
Comments
Log in or sign up to get involved in the conversation. It's quick and easy.