Definition of "temporise"

temporise

verb
third-person singular simple present temporises, present participle temporising, simple past and past participle temporised
1. (British spelling) Alternative spelling of temporize
  Quotations
  Though that her heart were fired, and swollen with anger, she temporiseth so, 'twas undiscovered: […]
  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, lines 301–302; republished in Randall Martin, editor, Women Writers in Renaissance England, Abingdon, Oxfordshire, New York, N.Y.: Routledge, 2014, part 2 (Prose), page 176
  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.
  1847 January – 1848 July, William Makepeace Thackeray, Vanity Fair […], London: Bradbury and Evans […], published 1848
  [William] Penn, therefore, exhorted the fellows not to rely on the goodness of their cause, but to submit, or at least to temporise.
  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, page 298