adv. and a. Obs. [Anglicized form of EXTEMPORE.] = EXTEMPORE.

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1623.  Cockeram, II. Out of Hand, Extempory.

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1655.  Fuller, Ch. Hist., VIII. i. § 30. 12. Some being for extempory prayers, but none to my knowledge for extempory pollicy.

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1658.  Ussher, Ann., 351. Whereunto they extempory made him very prudent and well advised answers.

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1679.  Hist. Jetzer, 27. His Knife (which for a piece of extempory Service he always wore about him).

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1775.  M. Guthrie, in G. Colman’s Posth. Lett. (1820), 118. Celebrating our activity … with extempory Song.

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  Hence † Extemporiness.

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1727.  in Bailey, vol. II.

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1775.  in Ash.

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