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ad libitum

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ad lib·i·tum  (d lb-tm)
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.]
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Adv.1.ad libitum - without advance preparation; "he spoke ad lib"
ad lib, impromptu, spontaneously
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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.
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The movement was obliged to be in triple time; the rest was ad libitum.
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