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Extemporize

verb
(past & past part. extemporized; pres. part. extemporizing)
1.
Manage in a makeshift way; do with whatever is at hand.  Synonym: improvise.
2.
Perform without preparation.  Synonyms: ad-lib, extemporise, improvise, improvize.






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"Extemporize" Quotes from Famous Books



... source of all light in the region of harmony, whose acquaintance Beethoven had made on his first visit to Vienna in 1786, who when he heard Beethoven extemporize upon a theme that was given him, exclaimed to those present, "This youth will some day make a noise in the world"—Mozart, though he had been a year in his grave, yet lived freshly in the memory of all who had a heart ...
— Sketch of Handel and Beethoven • Thomas Hanly Ball

... with his talent at extempore verse. He was then a youth, tall, dark, and of a good person, with small eyes, and features more round than weak; a face that had character and humor, but no refinement. His extempore verses were really surprising. It is easy enough to extemporize in Italian—one only wonders how, in a language in which every thing conspires to render verse-making easy, and it is difficult to avoid rhyming, this talent should be so much cried up—but in English ...
— Harper's New Monthly Magazine, Volume 1, No. 2, July, 1850. • Various

... facts which are by no means so flattering. There was a period in my latter boyhood when comic song-books, mostly of the Negro minstrely sort, satisfied my craving for poetic literature. I used to learn the songs by heart and invent and extemporize tunes for them. To this day I can repeat some of ...
— My Boyhood • John Burroughs



Words linked to "Extemporize" :   execute, extemporise, cope, grapple, extemporization, get by, make do, do, contend, ad-lib, improvize, improvise, perform, make out, deal, manage



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