Origin Extempore

extempore \ik-STEM-puh-ree\, adverb:
Without premeditation or preparation; on the spur of the moment.

[Origin: 1545–55; <>ex out of + tempore the time (abl. sing. of tempus)]


These soliloquies began quite thus,
With 'nary a thought to future content:
A capricious whip of that hoary blast,
Once to, now fro, on the taught
And wild wandering tongues

Of the beast and beauty bound,
Osculate on their velvet spread.
Sauvage soit la bête du monde;
Yet beauty's reign shall always be
Obdurately in our heads.