Definition of "temporiser" []

• Someone who temporizes; someone who tries to gain time or who waits for a favorable time (noun)

WordNet. Princeton University. 2010.

• "Is this space of our couple of hours too dimensional for you, temporiser?"
• "‘Que la trahison se taise! car c’est trahir que de conseiller de temporiser avec Buonaparte."
• ""Nothing was omitted that might make for the temporiser"; even the example of Paul, who went up into the Temple to pay his vow by the advice of the Apostle James, which step, however, Knox pronounced at once, notwithstanding his absolute reverence for Holy Writ, to have been wrong, and not of God -- a mistake of both the Apostles, and manifestly bringing no blessing with it."