without preparation; offhand: a speech given extempore
Origin of extempore
L, literally , out of the time from ex-, from, out of + tempore, ablative of tempus, time: see temper
adjective
The definition of extempore is done without any preparation.
An example of something extempore is a speech given without any script or planning; a speech which was extempore.
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extempore
adjective
Spoken, carried out, or composed with little or no preparation or forethought: an extempore speech.
adverb
In an extemporaneous manner.
Origin of extempore
Latin ex tempore ex of ; see ex- . tempore ablative of tempus timeTHE AMERICAN HERITAGE® DICTIONARY OF THE ENGLISH LANGUAGE, FIFTH EDITION by the Editors of the American Heritage Dictionaries. Copyright © 2016, 2011 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.
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Adjective
(comparative more extempore, superlative most extempore)
- carried out with no preparation; impromptu
Adverb
(comparative more extempore, superlative most extempore)
- without preparation; extemporaneously
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Sentence Examples
- He was a great extempore preacher and exposed to the peril of the unconsidered "telling" phrase.
- Anglicanism was a limb of Antichrist; extempore prayers were regarded as inspired: a liturgy was " a Mass-book."
- In Mrs John Mills's life of her husband is an account of John Bright's first extempore speech.
- "The rubrics as retained from the Book of Geneva made provision for an extempore prayer before the sermon, and allowed the minister some latitude in the other two prayers.
- On the 19th he opened parliament in a speech which, as he explained, he had to deliver extempore owing to "the treachery" of his secretary.
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