Word Meanings - IMPROVISO - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Not prepared or mediated beforehand; extemporaneous. Jonhson.

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• MEDIATRESS; MEDIATRIX
  A female mediator.
• PREPARATIVELY
  By way of preparation.
• MEDIATIZATION
  The act of mediatizing.
• MEDIATENESS
  The state of being mediate.
• MEDIATE
  1. Being between the two extremes; middle; interposed; intervening; intermediate. Prior. 2. Acting by means, or by an intervening cause or instrument; not direct or immediate; acting or suffering through an intervening agent or condition. 3. Gained
• MEDIATORY
  Mediatorial.
• BEFOREHAND
  1. In a state of anticipation ore preoccupation; in advance; -- often followed by with. Agricola . . . resolves to be beforehand with the danger. Milton. The last cited author has been beforehand with me. Addison. 2. By way of preparation,
• MEDIATIZE
  To cause to act through an agent or to hold a subordinate position; to annex; -- specifically applied to the annexation during the former German empire of a smaller German state to a larger, while allowing it a nominal sovereignty, and its prince
• EXTEMPORANEOUS
  Composed, performed, or uttered on the spur of the moment, or without previous study; unpremeditated; off-hand; extempore; extemporary; as, an extemporaneous address or production. -- Ex*tem`po*ra"ne*ous*ly, adv. -- Ex*tem`po*ra"ne*ous*ness,n.
• PREPARER
  One who, or that which, prepares, fits, or makes ready. Wood.
• PREPARABLE
  Capable of being prepared. "Medicine preparable by art." Boyle.
• MEDIATION
  1. The act of mediating; action or relation of anything interposed; action as a necessary condition, means, or instrument; interposition; intervention. The soul by the mediation of these passions. South. 2. Hence, specifically, agency between
• MEDIATIVE
  Pertaining to mediation; used in mediation; as, mediative efforts. Beaconsfield.
• PREPARATION
  The holding over of a note from one chord into the next chord, where it forms a temporary discord, until resolved in the chord that follows; the anticipation of a discordant note in the preceding concord, so that the ear is prepared for the shock.
• MEDIATORIAL
  Of or pertaining to a mediator, or to mediation; mediatory; as, a mediatorial office. -- Me`di*a*to"ri*al*ly, adv. My measures were . . . healing and mediatorial. Burke.
• MEDIATORSHIP
  The office or character of a mediator.
• PREPARATORY
  Preparing the way for anything by previous measures of adaptation; antecedent and adapted to what follows; introductory; preparative; as, a preparatory school; a preparatory condition.
• MEDIATOR
  One who mediates; especially, one who interposes between parties at variance for the purpose of reconciling them; hence, an intercessor. For there is one God, and one mediator between God and men, the man Christ Jesus. 1 Tim. ii. 5.
• PREPARATOR
  One who prepares beforehand, as subjects for dissection, specimens for preservation in collections, etc. Agassiz.
• PREPARED
  Made fit or suitable; adapted; ready; as, prepared food; prepared questions. -- Pre*par"ed*ly, adv. Shak. -- Pre*par"ed*ness, n.
• IMPREPARATION
  Want of preparation. Hooker.
• INTERMEDIATOR
  A mediator.
• IMMEDIATISM
  Immediateness.
• IMMEDIATE
  1. Not separated in respect to place by anything intervening; proximate; close; as, immediate contact. You are the most immediate to our throne. Shak. 2. Not deferred by an interval of time; present; instant. "Assemble we immediate council." Shak.
• DISPREPARE
  To render unprepared. Hobbes.
• REMEDIATE
  Remedial. Shak.
• IMMEDIATENESS
  The quality or relations of being immediate in manner, place, or time; exemption from second or interventing causes. Bp. Hall.
• NONPREPARATION
  Neglect or failure to prepare; want of preparation.
• IMMEDIATELY
  1. In an immediate manner; without intervention of any other person or thing; proximately; directly; -- opposed to mediately; as, immediately contiguous. God's acceptance of it either immediately by himself, or mediately by the hands of the bishop.
• INTERMEDIATELY
  In an intermediate manner; by way of intervention.