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Definition of Extemporizers
1. extemporizer [n] - See also: extemporizer
Lexicographical Neighbors of Extemporizers
Literary usage of Extemporizers
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Extemporaneous Oratory for Professional and Amateur Speakers by James Monroe Buckley (1898)
"... ttbe ©1d World A DISCRIMINATING study of typical extemporizers, with a view
to ascertaining how they perfected themselves in their art ... extemporizers ..."
2. The Baptist Quarterly by Baptist Historical Society (1870)
"This tendency to neglect of preparation is real and powerful, but it may be
resisted, and many extemporizers do resist it, continuing through life to ..."
3. A Treatise on the Preparation and Delivery of Sermons by John Albert Broadus (1898)
"And if many extemporizers grow indolent, and rely too much upon the suggestions
of the moment, at least they must at the moment have some mental activity; ..."
4. The Catholic Encyclopedia: An International Work of Reference on the by Charles George Herbermann, Edward Aloysius Pace, Condé Bénoist Pallen, Thomas Joseph Shahan, John Joseph Wynne (1913)
"They were pleasing extemporizers, skillful and brilliant storytellers who put on
canvas, often with spirit ..."
5. The Complete Works of John Lyly by John Lyly (1902)
"4) maybe traceable to the Italian extemporizers. It is hardly safe, indeed, to
assume that the English were capable of originating the simplest joke, ..."
6. The Annual of Scientific Discovery, Or, Year-book of Facts in Science and Art by David Ames Wells, George Bliss, Samuel Kneeland, John Trowbridge, Charles Robert Cross (1857)
"Composers and extemporizers of pianoforte music have long been in want of some
contrivance that should register the notes of a ..."
7. The Methodist Review (1862)
"pictures of silver, are model extemporizers; and yet, while they disclaim preaching
memoriter, they candidly disavow improvised diction, and declare that ..."
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