† exˈtempory, adv. and a. Obs.
[Anglicized form of extempore.]
= extempore.
| 1623 Cockeram 11, Out of Hand, Extempory. 1655 Fuller Ch. Hist. viii. i. §30 Some being for extempory prayers, but none to my knowledge for extempory pollicy. 1658 Ussher Ann. 351 Whereunto they extempory made him very prudent and well advised answers. 1679 Hist. Jetzer 27 His Knife (which for a piece of extempory Service he always wore about him). 1775 M. Guthrie in G. Colman's Posth. Lett. (1820) 118 Celebrating our activity..with extempory Song. |
Hence † exˈtemporiness.
| 1727 in Bailey vol. II. 1775 in Ash. |