extemporaneous

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Extemporaneous speeches were made on street corners and from atop coffee tables.

From Time Magazine Archive

Extemporaneous spokesmen were prone to end elliptical sentences with hopeful gestures of the hand and those who had prepared their talks showed a marked propensity for digression.

From Time Magazine Archive

"Extemporaneous speech" has sometimes been made to mean unprepared speech, and indeed it is too often precisely that; but in no such sense do we recommend it strongly to speakers old and young.

From The Art of Public Speaking by Carnagey, Dale

Extemporaneous prayer follows; then another hymn; then, unless the Church service has been previously used, the reading of portions of the Scriptures; then an extemporaneous sermon, and the worship is concluded with singing and prayer. 

From The Religious Life of London by Ritchie, J. Ewing (James Ewing)

Extemporaneous, or the following: Supreme Architect of the Universe, accept our hearty thanks for the many mercies and blessings which Thy bounty has conferred upon us, and especially for this social intercourse with our brethren.

From Masonic Monitor of the Degrees of Entered Apprentice, Fellow Craft and Master Mason together with the Ceremony of Installation, Laying Corner Stones, Dedications, Masonic Burial, Etc. by Thornburgh, George