temporize
To deliberately act evasively or prolong a discussion in order to gain time or postpone a decision, sometimes so that a compromise can be reached or simply to make a conversation more temperate; to stall for time.
(by extension) To discuss, to negotiate; to reach a compromise.
The Dolphin is too wilfull opposite, / And will not temporize with my intreaties: / He flatly saies, heell not lay downe his Armes.
I ought to have temporized with this singular being, learned the motives of its interference, and availed myself of its succor, [...]
(dentistry) To apply a temporary piece of dental work that will later be removed.
(archaic) To comply with the occasion or time; to humor, or yield to, current circumstances or opinion; also, to trim (fluctuate between parties, so as to appear to favor each).
[William] Penn, therefore, exhorted the fellows not to rely on the goodness of their cause, but to submit, or at least to temporise.
(obsolete) To delay, especially until a more favorable time; to procrastinate.
(medicine) To take temporary measures or actions to manage a situation without providing a definitive or permanent solution.
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