currente calamo

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English

Etymology

From New Latin currente calamō (“with the pen running on”).

Pronunciation

Adverb

currente calamo (not comparable)

  1. Without deliberation or hesitation: extempore, off-the-cuff.
    • 1857, Anthony Trollope, Barchester Towers:
      His letter […] was written, currente calamo, with very little trouble.
    • 1911, Max Beerbohm, Zuleika Dobson:
      And these things he had achieved currente calamo, “wielding his pen,” as Scott said of Byron, “with the easy negligence of a nobleman.”

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