(adjective) : in-tempestīvus, a, um
* Untimely, unseasonable, inopportune, inconvenient.
* Lit.: postes intempestivos excisos credo,Plaut. Most. 3, 2, 141: imbres,Lucr. 2, 873; 929; 6, 1101: amicitia numquam intempestiva est,Cic. Lael. 6: epistula,id. Att. 4, 14: cupido,Ov. M. 10, 689: intempestivā turbantes festa Minervā,i. e. by their unseasonable spinning,id. ib. 4, 33: immodica et intempestiva libido,Vell. 2, 68, 4: quid hoc joco intempestivius,Val. Max. 7, 8, 9: gula,gratified at unseasonable times,Suet. Vit. 13: intempestivo partu extracto,premature,Amm. 23, 2, 17.
* Transf., that acts or does a thing unseasonably: anseres continuo clamore intempestivi,Plin. 18, 35, 87, § 363.— Adv. in two forms.
* Form intempestīvē, out of season, unseasonably: accedere,Cic. Off. 1, 25: adire ad aliquem,id. Fam. 11, 16; Liv. 45, 21: fovere vulnera mentis,Ov. P. 4, 11, 19; Phaedr. 3, 19, 12: juvare,Tac. A. 2, 23.
* Form intempestīvīter, unseasonably: dicere,Gell. 4, 20 in lemm.

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