temporize
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temporize englanniksi
To deliberately act evasively or prolong a discussion in order to gain time or postpone a decision, sometimes so that a compromise can be reached or simply to make a conversation more temperate; to for time.
(RQ:Shakespeare King John)
(RQ:Scott Peveril of the Peak)
To apply a temporary piece of dental work that will later be removed.
(quote-journal)
To comply with the occasion or time; to humour, or yield to, current circumstances or opinion; also, to (l).
(RQ:Daniel Civil Wars)
(RQ:Burton Melancholy)
(quote-book)|title=The History of the Life, Reign, and Death of Edward II, King of England, and Lord of Ireland:(nb...)|location=London|publisher=(...) J. C. for Charles Harper ... Samuel Crouch ... and Thomas Fox ...|year=1627|year_published=1680|lines=301–302|oclc=1171083400|newversion=republished in|editor2=Randall Martin|title2=Women Writers in Renaissance England|location2=Abingdon, Oxfordshire; New York, N.Y.|publisher2=Routledge|year2=2014|section2=part 2 (Prose)|page2=176|pageurl2=https://books.google.com/books?id=0HYQBAAAQBAJ&pg=PA176|isbn2=978-1-4082-0499-3|passage=Though that her heart were fired, and swollen with anger, she temporiseth so, 'twas undiscovered: ...
(RQ:Fielding Amelia)
(RQ:Macaulay History of England)
To delay, especially until a more favourable time; to procrastinate.
(RQ:Shakespeare Much Ado About Nothing Q) haue not ſpent all his quiuer in Venice, thou wilt quake for this ſhortly. / ''Bened''''ick''. I looke for an earthquake too then. / ''Pedro.'' Well, you will temporize with the howres, ...
(RQ:Bacon Henry 7)&93; deceiued of his hopes of the Countries concourſe vnto him (in which caſe he would haue temporized) and ſeeing the buſineſſe paſt Retraict, reſolued to make on where the King &91;(w)&93; was, and to giue him Battaile; ...
To take temporary measures or actions to manage a situation without providing a definitive or permanent solution.