Word Meanings - EXTEMPORIZE - Book Publishers vocabulary database
To speak extempore; especially, to discourse without special preparation; to make an offhand address.
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- WITHOUT-DOOR
Outdoor; exterior. "Her without-door form." Shak. - WITHOUTFORTH
Without; outside' outwardly. Cf. Withinforth. Chaucer. - SPEAKERSHIP
The office of speaker; as, the speakership of the House of Representatives. - DISCOURSER
1. One who discourse; a narrator; a speaker; an haranguer. In his conversation he was the most clear discourser. Milward. 2. The writer of a treatise or dissertation. Philologers and critical discoursers. Sir T. Browne. - EXTEMPORE
Without previous study or meditation; without preparation; on the spur of the moment; suddenly; extemporaneously; as, to write or speak extempore. Shak. -- a. - SPEAKER
1. One who speaks. Specifically: One who utters or pronounces a discourse; usually, one who utters a speech in public; as, the man is a good speaker, or a bad speaker. One who is the mouthpiece of others; especially, one who presides - SPECIALLY
1. In a special manner; partcularly; especially. Chaucer. 2. For a particular purpose; as, a meeting of the legislature is specially summoned. - ADDRESS
To consign or intrust to the care of another, as agent or factor; as, the ship was addressed to a merchant in Baltimore. To address one's self to. To prepare one's self for; to apply one's self to. To direct one's speech or discourse to. (more - SPECIALISM
Devotion to a particular and restricted part or branch of knowledge, art, or science; as, medical specialism. - SPECIALIZATION
The setting spart of a particular organ for the performance of a particular function. Darwin. (more info) 1. The act of specializing, or the state of being spezialized. - OFFHAND
Instant; ready; extemporaneous; as, an offhand speech; offhand excuses. -- adv. - SPECIALIZE
To supply with an organ or organs having a special function or functions. (more info) 1. To mention specialy; to particularize. 2. To apply to some specialty or limited object; to assign to a specific use; as, specialized knowledge. - ADDRESSEE
One to whom anything is addressed. - WITHOUTEN
Without. Chaucer. - SPECIALIST
One who devotes himself to some specialty; as, a medical specialist, one who devotes himself to diseases of particular parts of the body, as the eye, the ear, the nerves, etc. - SPECIALITY
See SPECIES (more info) 1. A particular or peculiar case; a particularity. Sir M. Hale. - ESPECIALLY
In an especial manner; chiefly; particularly; peculiarly; in an uncommon degree. - DISCOURSE
fr. discurrere, discursum, to run to and fro, to discourse; dis- + 1. The power of the mind to reason or infer by running, as it were, from one fact or reason to another, and deriving a conclusion; an exercise or act of this power; reasoning; range - SPEAK
1. To utter with the mouth; to pronounce; to utter articulately, as human beings. They sat down with him upn ground seven days and seven nights, and none spake a word unto him. Job. ii. 13. 2. To utter in a word or words; to say; to tell; - WITHOUT
1. On or art the outside; not on the inside; not within; outwardly; externally. Without were fightings, within were fears. 2 Cor. vii. 5. 2. Outside of the house; out of doors. The people came unto the house without. Chaucer. - IMPREPARATION
Want of preparation. Hooker. - UNSPECIALIZED
Not specialized; specifically , not adapted, or set apart, for any particular purpose or function; as, an unspecialized unicellular organism. W. K. Brooks. - ESPECIALNESS
The state of being especial. - BESPEAKER
One who bespeaks. - OUTSPEAK
1. To exceed in speaking. 2. To speak openly or boldly. T. Campbell. 3. To express more than. Shak. - UNBESPEAK
To unsay; hence, to annul or cancel. Pepys. - FORSPEAK
1. To forbid; to prohibit. Shak. 2. To bewitch. Drayton. - FORESPEAKING
A prediction; also, a preface. Camden. Huloet. - UNSPEAK
To retract, as what has been spoken; to recant; to unsay. Shak. - HEADDRESS
1. A covering or ornament for the head; a headtire. Among birds the males very often appear in a most beautiful headdress, whether it be a crest, a comb, a tuft of feathers, or a natural little plume. Addison. 2. A manner of dressing the hair or - BESPEAK
besprecan, to speak to, accuse; pref. be- + sprecan to speak. See 1. To speak or arrange for beforehand; to order or engage against a future time; as, to bespeak goods, a right, or a favor. Concluding, naturally, that to gratify his avarice was