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ordinary [ ordi·na·ry ]
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1. With no special or distinctive features; normal.
he sets out to depict ordinary people
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2. Not interesting or exceptional; commonplace.
she seemed very ordinary
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3. (especially of a judge or bishop) exercising authority by virtue of office and not by deputation.
All the ordinary judges of the Supreme Court and the chief justice were educated in private schools.
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Noun (ordinaries)
1. (the ordinary) What is commonplace or standard.
His physical skills are above ordinary and that pays off on the defensive end.
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2. A judge who exercises authority by virtue of office and not by deputation.
3. (the Ordinary) A member of the clergy, such as an archbishop in a province or a bishop in a diocese, with immediate jurisdiction.
Jeffrey Steenson is Canon to the Ordinary in the Episcopal diocese of the Rio Grande.
4. (Ordinary) Those parts of a Roman Catholic service, especially the Mass, which do not vary from day to day.
Even so, between 1592 and 1595 Byrd published his three settings of the ordinary of the mass, the masses for three, four and five voices.
5. A rule or book laying down the order of divine service.
6. Any of the simplest principal charges used in coats of arms (especially chief, pale, bend, fess, bar, chevron, cross, saltire).
7. short for ordinary share
The spin offensive in today's papers has done nothing for News Corp's share price as the ordinaries dipped 16 cents to $11.02.
8. A meal provided at a fixed time and price at an inn.
9. An inn providing a meal at a fixed time and price.
10. A penny-farthing bicycle.
Origin
1. Late Middle English the noun partly via Old French; the adjective from Latin ordinarius ‘orderly’ (reinforced by French ordinaire), from ordo, ordin- ‘order’.
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