extempore

• He then prayed extempore, as did Dr. Taylor; and thus, by means of that piety which was ever his primary object, his troubled mind was, in some degree, soothed and composed Footnote 1: See post , Nov. —  Life Of Johnson, Vol. 1
• Are not they well enough to be done off-hand; for that is the meaning of the word extempore, which you did not know, did you? —  The Journal to Stella
• I played extempore, and then three duets with the violin, which I had never in my life seen, nor do I now know the name of the author. —  The Letters of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Vol.1.
• I believe that all this nonsense was nearly extempore, and that the fancy of drawing the images from America arose at the moment from the obvious rhyme which presented itself in the first stanza. —  Memoir of Jane Austen
• - Russian relations at the 45th Munich Security Conference a month ago, we were virtually alone in pointing out that the vice president was not speaking extempore -- off-the-cuff -- or shooting from the hip but that he was sending a carefully prepared, well-calibrated signal to the Kremlin to further a negotiating process on strategic issues that was already far advanced. —  Latest News - UPI.com

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