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Definition of Contemporise
1. Verb. Happen at the same time.
Generic synonyms: Come About, Fall Out, Go On, Hap, Happen, Occur, Pass, Pass Off, Take Place
Derivative terms: Synchronisation, Synchrony, Synchronization, Synchronizing, Synchrony
2. Verb. Arrange or represent events so that they co-occur. "Synchronize biblical events"
Generic synonyms: Arrange, Order, Put, Set Up
Derivative terms: Synchrony, Synchrony
Lexicographical Neighbors of Contemporise
Literary usage of Contemporise
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Practical Orthography, Or, The Art of Teaching Spelling by Writing by William Bearcroft (1828)
"PY. cw contemporise, DjPY.wcjS. ... with z, and contemporise with*/ Scott and .
... and contemporise with s, and extemporize with z. ..."
2. A Critical Pronouncing Dictionary, and Expositor of the English Language ...by John Walker by John Walker (1810)
"... s. one Contemporary, kon-têm'pi-rd-re. a. of the same age—s. one living at
the same time contemporise, ..."
3. The Works of Thomas Goodwin, D.D. by Thomas Goodwin (1863)
"And thus being in the middle of both, when it falls out as middle age, as they
are Christians, doth contemporise with a middle age in nature, as often they ..."
4. Dizionario delle lingue italiana ed ingleseby Giuseppe Marco Antonio Baretti by Giuseppe Marco Antonio Baretti (1807)
"To contemporise, far contemporáneo. Contempt,«, dispregio.scherno. — '¡o fall
vari:ra tC'it'riil contempt, di venire I« scherno d' ognuno —The contempt of ..."
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