temporise

See also: temporisé

English

Verb

temporise (third-person singular simple present temporises, present participle temporising, simple past and past participle temporised)

(British spelling) Alternative spelling of temporize
- 1627, E. F. [i.e., Elizabeth Cary, Viscountess Falkland], The History of the Life, Reign, and Death of Edward II, King of England, and Lord of Ireland: […], London: […] J. C. for Charles Harper […] Samuel Crouch […] and Thomas Fox [...], published 1680, →OCLC, lines 301–302; republished in Randall Martin, editor, Women Writers in Renaissance England, Abingdon, Oxfordshire, New York, N.Y.: Routledge, 2014, →ISBN, part 2 (Prose), page 176:
  Though that her heart were fired, and swollen with anger, she temporiseth so, 'twas undiscovered: […]
- 1847 January – 1848 July, William Makepeace Thackeray, Vanity Fair […], London: Bradbury and Evans […], published 1848, →OCLC:
  On the first day when his father formally gave him the hint that he was to place his affections at Miss Swartz's feet, George temporised with the old gentleman.
- 1849, Thomas Babington Macaulay, chapter VIII, in The History of England from the Accession of James II, volume II, London: Longman, Brown, Green, and Longmans, →OCLC, page 298:
  [William] Penn, therefore, exhorted the fellows not to rely on the goodness of their cause, but to submit, or at least to temporise.

Conjugation

Conjugation of *temporise*
	present tense	past tense
infinitive	(to) temporise

1st-person singular	temporise	temporised
2nd-person singular	temporise, temporisest^†	temporised, temporisedst^†
3rd-person singular	temporises, temporiseth^†	temporised
plural	temporise	temporised

subjunctive	temporise	temporised

imperative	temporise	—

participles	temporising	temporised

^† Archaic or obsolete.

Anagrams

importees, peristome, prosemite

French

Pronunciation

Homophones: temporisent, temporises

Verb

temporise

inflection of temporiser:
1. first/third-person singular present indicative/subjunctive
2. second-person singular imperative