ordinary
IPA: ˈɔrdʌnɛri
noun
- A person with authority; authority, ordinance.
- (ecclesiastical, law) A person having immediate jurisdiction in a given case of ecclesiastical law, such as the bishop within a diocese.
- (obsolete) A courier; someone delivering mail or post.
- (law) A judge with the authority to deal with cases himself or herself rather than by delegation.
- (now historical) The chaplain of Newgate prison, who prepared condemned prisoners for death.
- Something ordinary or regular.
- (obsolete) Customary fare, one's regular daily allowance of food; (hence) a regular portion or allowance.
- (now chiefly historical) A meal provided for a set price at an eating establishment.
- (now archaic, historical) A place where such meals are served; a public tavern, inn.
- (heraldry) One of the standard geometric designs placed across the center of a coat of arms, such as a pale or fess.
- An ordinary person or thing; something commonplace.
- (now Scotland, Ireland) The usual course of things; normal condition or health; a standard way of behaviour or action.
- (now historical) A penny farthing bicycle.
- (Christianity) A part of the Christian liturgy that is reasonably constant without regard to the date on which the service is performed.
- A book setting out ordinary or regular conduct.
- (obsolete) A devotional manual; a book setting our rules for proper conduct.
- (Christianity, especially Catholicism) A rule, or book of rules, prescribing the order of a liturgy, especially of Mass.
- The part of the Roman Catholic Mass that is the same every day
- (Catholicism) Alternative letter-case form of Ordinary (“those parts of the Mass which are consistent from day to day”) [The part of the Roman Catholic Mass that is the same every day]
adjective
- (law, of a judge) Having regular jurisdiction; now only used in certain phrases.
- Being part of the natural order of things; normal, customary, routine.
- Having no special characteristics or function; everyday, common, mundane; often deprecatory.
- (Australia, New Zealand, colloquial, informal) Bad or undesirable.
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Examples of "ordinary" in Sentences
- This is totally ordinary and unexceptional.
- The third is the surface of an ordinary sphere.
- The ordinary minister of confirmation is the bishop.
- There were both the intelligentsia and ordinary people.
- Ordinary populace leads the life of privation and misery.
- The Requiem Mass is a modified version of the ordinary mass.
- For ordinary programs, the assembler produced the bootstrap code.
- In ordinary incandescent lamps this tungsten is deposited on the bulb.
- Feelings are qualia and therefore not communicable by ordinary language.
- He is therefore an ordinary because of this vicarious ordinary executive power.
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