Both Uses of
extemporaneous
in
The Mill on the Floss
- The style of preaching he had chosen was the extemporaneous, which was held little short of the miraculous in rural parishes like King's Lorton.†
Chpt 2.1 *
- "Have as little to do with him at school as you can, my lad," he said to Tom; and the command was obeyed the more easily because Mr. Sterling by this time had two additional pupils; for though this gentleman's rise in the world was not of that meteor-like rapidity which the admirers of his extemporaneous eloquence had expected for a preacher whose voice demanded so wide a sphere, he had yet enough of growing prosperity to enable him to increase his expenditure in continued disproportion to his income.†
Chpt 2.7
Definitions:
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(1)
(extemporaneous) done with little or no preparation or planning
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(2)
(meaning too rare to warrant focus) meaning too rare to warrant focus