ordinary
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Definition
noun (English)
1. A person with authority; authority, ordinance.
2. A person with authority; authority, ordinance.Examples: "I […] will lay to till you come within hail […] but pray respond by the first ordinary."obsolete
3. A person with authority; authority, ordinance.
4. A person with authority; authority, ordinance.Examples: "He died with pious composure and resolution. I have just seen the Ordinary that attended him."historical
5. Something ordinary or regular.obsolete
6. Something ordinary or regular.Examples: "In short, Mr. Jolter could give a very good account of the stages on the road, and […] was a connoisseur in ordinaries, from twelve to five and thirty livres […]."; "Here he recommended me to fix my board, there being an excellent ordinary daily at two o'clock, at which I might dine or not as I pleased."historical
adj (English)
1. (law, of a judge) Having regular jurisdiction; now only used in certain phrases.
2. (Australia, New Zealand, colloquial, informal) Bad or undesirable.Examples: "1983 September 20, Bruce Stannard, Australia II Joins Our Greats, The Age, republished 2003, David Headon (editor), The Best Ever Australian Sports Writing: A 200 Year Collection, page 480, It was, in some ways a sad, almost pathetic sight to see this great American boat which had fought so hard throughout the cup summer, now looking very ordinary indeed."; "1961, Joanna White, quoted in 2005, A. James Hammerton, Alistair Thomson, Ten Pound Poms: Australia′s Invisible Migrants, page 80, For myself, I loved adventure and travelling. I′d already done quite a bit of travelling in Europe and — couldn′t get enough of it and whilst my marriage, at that stage, was very happy, he was very entrenched as a Londoner, Cockney, absolutely Cockney Londoner, and I could see that our future was pretty ordinary and so my hidden agenda I suppose was to drag him out to Australia and hope that both our lifestyles would improve and there would be new opportunities."; "Everyone started making suggestions as to what to do but they were all pretty ordinary ideas such as lighting a fire and hope someone would see the smoke and come to rescue us and so on."AustraliaNew-Zealandcolloquialinformal
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