adjective. Commonly encountered; usual: synonym: common.

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adjective. Of no exceptional ability, degree, or quality; average.

adjective. Not particularly good; not better than average.

adjective. Having direct authority to decide a case, rather than being delegated that power, as a judge.

adjective. Designating a differential equation containing no more than one independent variable.

noun. The usual or normal condition or course of events.

noun. A judge with direct authority as opposed to delegated authority to decide a case.

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noun. The parts of the Mass that remain unchanged from day to day.

noun. A division of the Roman Breviary containing the unchangeable parts of the office other than the Psalms.

noun. A cleric, such as the residential bishop of a diocese, with ordinary jurisdiction over a specified territory.

noun. One of the simplest and commonest charges, such as the bend and the cross.

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noun. A complete meal provided at a fixed price.

noun. A tavern or inn providing such a meal.

Conformed to a fixed or regulated sequence or arrangement; hence, sanctioned by law or usage; established; settled; stated; regular; normal; customary.

Common in practice or use; usual; frequent; habitual.

Common in occurrence; such as may be met with at any time or place; not distinguished in any way from others; hence, often, somewhat inferior; of little merit; not distinguished by superior excellence; commonplace; mean; low.

Ugly; not handsome: as, she is an ordinary woman.

Vulgar, etc. (see common), homely.

noun. One possessing immediate jurisdiction in his own right and not by special deputation.

noun. An English diocesan officer, entitled the ordinary of assize and sessions, appointed to give criminals their neck-verses, perform other religious services for them, and assist in preparing them for death.

noun. A judge empowered to take cognizance of causes in his own right, and not by delegation.

noun. The established or due sequence; the appointed or fixed form; in the Roman Catholic missal and in other Latin liturgies, the established sequence or order for saying mass; the service of the mass (with exclusion of the canon) as preëminent; the ordo.

noun. Rule; guide.

noun. Something regular and customary; something in common use.

noun. A usual or customary meal; hence, a regular meal provided at, an eating-house for every one, as distinguished from dishes specially ordered; a table d'hôte.

noun. A place where such meals are served; an eating-house where there is a fixed price for a meal.

noun. The average; the mass; the common run.

noun. In heraldry, a very common bearing, usually bounded by straight lines, but sometimes by one of the heraldic lines, wavy, nebulé, or the like. See line, 12.

noun. In the navy: The establishment of persons formerly employed by government to take charge of ships of war laid up in harbors.

noun. The state of a ship not in actual service, but laid up under the charge of officers: as, a ship in ordinary (one laid up under the direction of the officers of a navy-yard or dockyard).

noun. See def. 10 .

noun. Abbreviated ord.

noun. The bicycle with a large front and a small rear wheel, which preceded the ‘safety’ bicycle: so called because it was the common form of bicycle before 1890. See bicycle.

noun. In the stock-market, a share of ordinary or common (that is, not preferred) stock.

adjective. According to established order; methodical; settled; regular.

adjective. Common; customary; usual.

adjective. Of common rank, quality, or ability; not distinguished by superior excellence or beauty; hence, not distinguished in any way; commonplace; inferior; of little merit

adjective. one not expert or fully skilled, and hence ranking below an able seaman.

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noun. An officer who has original jurisdiction in his own right, and not by deputation.

noun. One who has immediate jurisdiction in matters ecclesiastical; an ecclesiastical judge; also, a deputy of the bishop, or a clergyman appointed to perform divine service for condemned criminals and assist in preparing them for death.

noun. A judicial officer, having generally the powers of a judge of probate or a surrogate.

noun. The mass; the common run.

noun. That which is so common, or continued, as to be considered a settled establishment or institution.

noun. Anything which is in ordinary or common use.

noun. A dining room or eating house where a meal is prepared for all comers, at a fixed price for the meal, in distinction from one where each dish is separately charged; a table d'hôte; hence, also, the meal furnished at such a dining room.

noun. A charge or bearing of simple form, one of nine or ten which are in constant use. The bend, chevron, chief, cross, fesse, pale, and saltire are uniformly admitted as ordinaries. Some authorities include bar, bend sinister, pile, and others. See Subordinary.

"Thus in the slogan ˜Back to ordinary language™, ˜ordinary™ may be contrasted with"

abnormal  extraordinary  special  unusual  wonderful  

common  commonplace  court of ordinary  court of the ordinary  customary  

average  banausic  characterless  common  commonplace  

ordinariness  

bicycle  bike  clergyman  condition  cycle  

bend  chevron  chief  cross  fesse  

extraordinary  

new  normal  only  

American plan  Attic  Babbittish  European plan  JA  

subordinary