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- verb Simple past tense and past participle of
extemporise .
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Examples
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I started to raise my death-chant again -- a purely extemporised farrago of a drug-crazed youth.
Chapter 12 2010
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By the time of the duo's extemporised hymn to Edinburgh, which does nothing other than find half-rhymes for words like "hops" and "Five Pound Fringe", this viewer was getting doggerel-tired.
Abandoman 2010
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And the tongue of the case extemporised and spake on this theme,
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Discovery of these will blow the idea that you have actually extemporised from a couple of sides of scribble.
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Discovery of these will blow the idea that you have actually extemporised from a couple of sides of scribble.
Archive 2008-02-10 2008
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“I hear and obey,” replied the poet and in an eye-twinkling extemporised these couplets,
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After the preliminaries the QC stood up and extemporised at length.
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After the captain left, the stokers and pokers, and stewards and cooks, extemporised
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The assertion that results, that these writers are aiming to achieve a "realistic or Mundane SF", strikes me as vague and unsupported -- identifying a set of "hazy, extemporised parameters" only three of which are specified, then circumscribing the writers' approaches in the most general terms, and claiming that the two together add up to a systematic methodology.
Aristotlean Mundane hal_duncan 2005
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The large tea-houses contain the possibilities for a number of rooms which can be extemporised at once by sliding paper panels, called fusuma, along grooves in the floor and in the ceiling or cross-beams.
Unbeaten Tracks in Japan Isabella Lucy 2004
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