To comply with the time or occasion; to humor, or yield to, the current of opinion or circumstances; also, to trim, as between two parties. They might their grievance inwardly complain, But outwardly they needs must temporize. Daniel.
To delay; to procrastinate. [R.] Bacon.
To comply; to agree. [Obs.] Shak.
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