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Meanings of extemporise in English

Spanish
improvisar

Perform without preparation.

        improvisar
        Usage of extemporise in English
        1
        They had to extemporise crimes, and they were not scrupulous about it.
        The Trial and Death of Jesus Christ: A Devotional History of Our...
        2
        After dinner the older visitors sit down to cards, and the young people extemporise a dance.
        Russia
        3
        I could very soon black myself all over, and a nigger's costume will not take long to extemporise.
        The Three Midshipmen
        4
        They are forbidden to read, and forbidden to extemporise, and by practice they speak from memory-somewell, all tolerably.'
        Correspondence & Conversations of Alexis de Tocqueville with Nas...
        5
        As I crossed the floor I tried to extemporise a prayer, but stopped short to listen, and never finished it.
        J. S. Le Fanu's Ghostly Tales, Volume 1
        6
        If you were there, and perhaps J. and B. as well, we might extemporise something purely for our own diversion.
        Correspondence of Wagner and Liszt — Volume 2
        7
        He could not extemporise as Handel, and Bach in more restricted circles, had done, nor as Mozart and Beethoven were soon to do.
        Haydn
        8
        To reach this, it was necessary to extemporise by means of a rope a species of ratlins by which he could climb the rigging.
        The Dominion of the Air: The Story of Aerial Navigation
        9
        We were not there that August morning to see an extemporised performance.
        T. De Witt Talmage as I Knew Him
        10
        The baron withdrew silently, and returning later found Beethoven extemporising in heavenly mood.
        The Love Affairs of Great Musicians, Volume 1
        11
        He was striking a few preliminary chords and indulging in an extemporised prelude.
        Madame Flirt / A Romance of 'The Beggar's Opera'
        12
        A few of the more reckless among us extemporised a game of polo.
        Six Months at the Cape
        13
        Tables were being extemporised on the broad level plot in front of the gate.
        The Dog Crusoe and his Master
        14
        I started to raise my death-chant again- apurelyextemporised farrago of a drug-crazed youth.
        John Barleycorn
        15
        Thus a holiday was extemporised for Harry, subject to the approbation of his father.
        David Elginbrod
        16
        It sounded like a drunken jazz band extemporising on bagpipes; a wheezing, rambling cacophony.
        Complete Books of Blood
        Translations for extemporise
        Spanish
        improvisar
        Extemporise through the time