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extemporal

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ex·tem·po·ral  (k-stmpr-l)
adj. Archaic
Extemporaneous.
[Latin extemporlis, from ex tempore; see extempore.]
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Thus it qualifies as improvisation in action, as an extemporal act relying on the shared availability of all external signs impacting the inner world of the poet and manifesting itself in a responsive mode, which ultimately leaves behind the poetic creation in the linguistic signs.
De vulgari eloquentia: Dante's semiotic workshop by de Benedictis, Raffaele / Italica
This, Barbour explains, leads to "the extemporal invention or venting of a somatic prose that is elastic as well as material" (67).
Deciphering Elizabethan Fiction by Cerasano, S.P. / Renaissance Quarterly
 
 
 
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