TEMPORIZE

v.

3 definitions — Webster’s Dictionary (1828)


1.
v.

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.

2.
v.

To delay; to procrastinate. [R.] Bacon.

3.
v.

To comply; to agree. [Obs.] Shak.