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extempore

[ik-stem-puh-ree] / ɪkˈstɛm pə ri /
ADJECTIVE
offhand
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The discussion has been somewhat confused by the misuse of the word Extempore.

From The Prayer Book Explained by Jackson, Percival

Extempore prayers are not, perhaps, a proper subject for comment.

From Famous Americans of Recent Times by Parton, James

Extempore blank verse, with a little practice, would be found as easy in English as rhyming is in Italian.

From Harper's New Monthly Magazine, Volume 1, No. 2, July, 1850. by Various

Though nothing so much gains upon the Affections as this Extempore Eloquence, which we have constantly Occasion for, and are obliged to practice every Day, we very rarely meet with any who excel in it.

From A Century of English Essays An Anthology Ranging from Caxton to R. L. Stevenson & the Writers of Our Own Time by Rhys, Ernest

With Finegas, Finn learned the three things that make a poet, and they are Fire of Song, and Light of Knowledge, and the Art of Extempore Recitation.

From The High Deeds of Finn and other Bardic Romances of Ancient Ireland by Reid, Stephen




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