ad libitum

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adj. Music

At the discretion of the performer. Used chiefly as a direction giving license to alter or omit a part.

[Latin ad, according to + libitum, past participle of libre, to please.]

ad libitum [ˈlɪbɪtʊm -təm]

adj & adv

(Music / Classical Music) Music (to be performed) at the performer's discretion Often shortened to ad lib

[see ad-lib]

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Adv.

ad libitum - without advance preparation; "he spoke ad lib"

ad lib, impromptu, spontaneously

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ad libitum

adv (Mus) → ad libitum, in freiem Tempo

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impromptu
spontaneously

We then spoke of the great beauty and importance of Democracy, and were at much trouble in impressing the Count with a due sense of the advantages we enjoyed in living where there was suffrage ad libitum, and no king.

Poems by Poe, Edgar Allan View in context

The movement was obliged to be in triple time; the rest was ad libitum.

Adam Bede by Eliot, George View in context

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