extemporize

Founding-era definition · Webster's 1828 American Dictionary

EXTEM'PORIZE, verb intransitive To speak extempore; to speak without previous study or preparation. To extemporize well requires a ready mind well furnished with knowledge. 1. To discourse without notes or written composition.
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