temporise

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

1. (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.

• importees, peristome, prosemite

• Homophones: temporisent, temporises

temporise

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