ordinaryn.
/ˈɔːdᵻn(ə)ri/, /ˈɔːdn̩(ə)ri/, U.S. /ˈɔrdnˌɛri/ I. Applied to a person or persons, and related senses.† 2. An officer in a religious fraternity having charge of a convent, etc. Obsolete.† 3. A staff of officers in regular attendance or service. Cf. ordinary adj. 2b. Obsolete. rare.† 4. A courier conveying dispatches or letters at regular intervals, frequently between different countries; (hence) post, mail. Obsolete.† 5. A stage prompter. Obsolete. rare.
1.
a. Chiefly Ecclesiastical Law. A person who has, of his or her own right and not by the appointment of another, immediate jurisdiction in ecclesiastical cases, such as the archbishop in a province, or the bishop or bishop's deputy in a diocese.
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society > faith > church government > member of the clergy > clerical superior > bishop > [noun]
bishopc897
patriarcheOE
bispa1300
ordinarya1325
ordinar?1403
father1418
discretion1421
pontificalc1440
diocesanc1450
rocheter1559
monseigneur1561
pope1563
bite-sheep1570
presul1577
rochet1581
diocesser1606
lawn sleevesc1640
episcopant1641
Right Reverend1681
diocesian1686
lawn-man1795
diocesiarch1805
bish1875
shire-bishop1880
a1325 Statutes of Realm (2011) v. 7 Wan clerk is arettet of felonie ant he be iasked þoru ordinaries, þat he be hoem deliuered after þe priuilegie of holi churche.
c1400 J. Wyclif Sel. Eng. Wks. (1871) III. 384 (MED) Freris..ben exempt fro bischopis and oþer ordinaries.
c1450 Jacob's Well (1900) 56 (MED) Þo..defendyn an opyn theef, after þe tyme þey be thryes monestyd of here ordinarye.
1480 in S. Tymms Wills & Inventories Bury St. Edmunds (1850) 60 The ordenary, afore whom this myn testament schall be prouyd.
?1530 J. Rastell Pastyme of People sig. *Ci Clerkes indyted of Felonye shalbe delyuered to the ordynaryes.
1590 H. Swinburne Briefe Treat. Test. & Willes vi. f. 205 The executor which deriueth his authoritie from the lawe, is the Bishop or Ordinarie of euerie diocesse.
1607 J. Cowell Interpreter sig. Zz2v/2 Ordinarie... In our common lawe, it is most commonly..taken for him, that hath ordinarie Iurisdiction in causes ecclesiasticall.
1687 T. Cartwright in J. R. Bloxham Magdalen Coll. & James II (1886) (modernized text) 115 The King..is Supreme Ordinary of this Kingdom.
1767 W. Blackstone Comm. Laws Eng. (new ed.) II. xviii. 277 If the bishop be both patron and ordinary, he shall not have a double time allowed him to collate in.
1829 F. A. Carrington & J. Payne Reports III. 489 If a governor of a colony has the authority of the ordinary, he has no power to commit a churchwarden who refuses to account, he ought to proceed upon a citation, and must excommunicate.
1875 W. Stubbs Constit. Hist. III. xviii. 98 It was agreed that all Lollards..should be handed over to the ordinaries to be tried.
1927 Amer. Mercury Feb. 188/1 Writing to his own ordinary, a priest or layman may begin ‘My dear Bishop’..without the surname.
1975 Halsbury's Laws of Eng. XIV. 221 The bishop of a diocese is..also called ‘Ordinary’ in some enactments ‘as having ordinary jurisdiction in causes ecclesiastical’.
1993 30 Days in Church & in World No. 1. 30/1 So five ordinaries out of a total of 26 had a letter read out in all the churches.
b. Civil Law. A judge having authority to deal with cases in his or her own right and not by delegation; (Scottish) one of the judges of the Outer House of the Court of Session; = Lord Ordinary n. at ordinary adj. 1 (now rare). Also, in parts of the United States: a county judge having jurisdiction esp. of a court of probate.
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society > law > administration of justice > one who administers justice > judge > [noun] > of superior court
justicec1300
Lord Justice1511
justiciary?1531
justicer1535
justiciarc1575
ordinary1607
red judge1854
1607 J. Cowell Interpreter sig. Zz2v/2 Ordinarie (Ordinarius),..in the ciuil lawe, whence the word is taken, it doth signifie any iudge that hath authoritie to take knowledge of causes in his owne right, as he is a magistrate, and not by deputation.
1675 Acts Sederunt Scotl. (1740) I. 87 That hereafter..no Bill of Suspension shall be presented to any Lord to be past, but to him who shall be Ordinary for the Time upon the Bills.
1714 W. Forbes Decisions p. xi Each Lord is called the Ordinary, with respect to Affairs that come in before him.
1775 J. Ferguson Decisions Court of Session 1738–52 352 That he re-employ the money in the same terms as devised by the bond at the sight of the Ordinary on the bills.
1816 S. Carolina Laws 56 Ordinaries in the several districts within this state, shall be elected by the citizen qualified..to vote.
1834 Tait's Edinb. Mag. New Ser. 1 724/1 From Mr. Hope's statement..the Ordinaries fare worse than the Judges of the Inner-House, as they must sometimes read manuscript... I do not know a more laborious life than that of one of the Lords Ordinary.
1861 G. Ross W. Bell's Dict. Law Scotl. (rev. ed.) 755/2 The junior or last appointed Ordinary of the First Division is appointed to sit as junior of the two permanent Lords Ordinary of the Second Division.
1916 N.Y. Times 30 Apr. 14/4 Georgia's new prohibition law... Transportation companies are held responsible for the consignee signing a receipt attested by a notary public, and the delivery of the receipt to county ordinaries.
1947 Richmond (Va.) Times-Dispatch 9 May 21/2 Judge Carl Griffin, ordinary of Floyd County, performed the ceremony.
1965 ‘F. O'Connor’ Everything that rises must Converge 229 The Ordinary was an old woman with red hair who had held office for forty years and looked as dusty as her books.
1972 Words & Phrases 30 272/1 Under Georgia statute, an ordinary is a judge, and may lawfully perform the marriage ceremony.
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society > faith > church government > monasticism > monastic functionary > [noun]
obediencera1325
ordinar?1403
ordinary1425
egomena1626
obediential1661
communara1730
obedientiary1794
obedientiar1892
1425 Rolls of Parl. IV. 306/1 If ye patron present not to ye said Benefice..yan hit be lawefull to ye ordinarie of ye same place yereto to make collation.
1481 in S. Tymms Wills & Inventories Bury St. Edmunds (1850) 68 The Secresten of the Monasterie of Bury Seynt Edmund, Ordinarie of the same place.
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society > armed hostility > warrior > soldier > leader or commander > officer or soldier of rank > [noun] > staff officer > staff of officers
ordinary1526
generality1578
generalty1643
staff1781
état-major1805
headquarters1812
horse guards1826
higher command1842
high command1904
family1907
1526 Eltham Ordinances in Coll. Ordinances Royal Househ. (1790) 165 The ordinary of the King's chamber which have bouche of Court & also their dietts within the Court. [A list of officers of the Household follows.]
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society > communication > correspondence > postal services > person or vehicle that carries letters or mail > [noun] > person
letter bearera1400
breveterc1440
post1507
letter carrier1552
post boy1588
ordinary1592
packet carrier1606
postie1611
woman-posta1616
postwoman1683
letterman1707
postman1758
packeteer1784
letter boy1794
carrier1798
delivery officer1839
post-girl1850
mailman1881
packeter1893
postlady1975
1592 H. Wotton Let. in L. P. Smith Life & Lett. Sir H. Wotton (1907) I. 293 I have in this included a post-cipher, serving for the letter that I sent by our last ordinary.
1667 W. Temple Let. to M. Gourville in Wks. (1731) II. 32 By the last Ordinary from Spain, it appears that they dream no more of War there than they do of Fire.
1704 J. Swift Disc. Mech. Operat. Spirit , in Tale of Tub 285 I have not had a Line..these three last Ordinaries.
1730 O. Swiny Let. 24 July in G. Colman Posthumous Lett. (1820) 26 I have recd no answer, as yet..but hope to have one by ye next week's ordinary.
1819 Ld. Byron Let. 15 May (1976) VI. 125 I..will lay to till you come within hail,..but pray respond by the first ordinary.
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society > leisure > the arts > performance arts > the theatre or the stage > the staging of a theatrical production > people concerned with theatrical productions > [noun] > prompter
book-bearer1530
book holder1585
prompter1585
ordinary1602
under-prompter1781
prompt1969
1602 R. Carew Surv. Cornwall i. f.71v The players..are prompted by one called the Ordinary, who followeth at their back with the booke in his hand.
6. Navy.† a. A group of officers, workers, etc., in charge of warships laid up in harbour. Obsolete.
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society > armed hostility > hostilities at sea > seafaring warrior or naval man > naval officials > [noun] > staff employed on laid-up ship
ordinarya1642
a1642 W. Monson Naval Tracts (1704) iii. 323/1 He is to take care to pay the Ordinary of the Navy every Quarter.
1702 N. Luttrell Diary in Brief Hist. Relation State Affairs (1857) V. 230 Resolv'd, that 129,314£. 18s. 03d. be allowed for the ordinary of the navy.
1758 J. Robertson in Philos. Trans. 1757 (Royal Soc.) 50 31 They were all labouring men, belonging to the ordinary of Portsmouth yard.
1769 W. Falconer Universal Dict. Marine Ordinary... These [persons] are..composed of the warrant-officers of the said ships,..and their servants. There is besides a crew of labourers enrolled in the list of the ordinary.
b. A part of a fleet which is laid up or out of service. Chiefly in in ordinary: (of a ship) out of commission, not in service. Also figurative. Now historical.
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society > travel > travel by water > launching a vessel > [phrase] > laid up or out of commission
out of commission1533
in ordinary1754
high and dry1851
1754 Ess. Manning Fleet 24 Warrant-Officers doing Duty on Board any Ships in Ordinary.
1796 Grose's Classical Dict. Vulgar Tongue (ed. 3) at Negroes Heads Brown loaves delivered to the ships in ordinary.
1833 J. Nyren Young Cricketer's Tutor 57 I have constantly been ‘at the receipt of custom’ when any rousing match has been toward; and being now a veteran, and laid up in ordinary, I may be allowed the vanity of the quotation, ‘Quorum magna pars fui’.
1842 J. Wilson Recreations Christopher North I. 359 The Crutch is laid up in ordinary.
1863 P. Barry Dockyard Econ. 192 Dockyard ordinaries is merely another name for reserves of ships of war. When ships of war are said to be in ordinary, the meaning is that they are in one of three stages of readiness for commission and active service.
1898 J. K. Laughton in Trans. Royal Hist. Soc. 12 89 ‘In ordinary’ at that time [sc. 1805] meant being repaired, or waiting to be repaired, but certainly not fit for service.
1962 ‘C. S. Forester’ Hornblower & Hotspur i. 13 Count the ships of war—the number and rate of ships with their yards crossed; ships still in ordinary.
1988 D. A. Thomas Compan. Royal Navy iii. 266/2 This had resulted in the English ships not being fitted out..and the ships were left in ‘ordinary’—in other words, they were in reserve with all their stores taken ashore.
7. †(a) More fully ordinary of assize and sessions. A diocesan officer appointed to give criminals their ‘neck-verses’ (see neck-verse n.), and to prepare them for death. Obsolete. (b) The chaplain of Newgate prison, whose duty it was to prepare condemned prisoners for death. Now historical.
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society > faith > church government > member of the clergy > chaplain > [noun] > prison > to condemned criminals
ordinary1696
society > faith > church government > member of the clergy > chaplain > [noun] > prison > to condemned criminals > at Newgate
ordinary1696
1696 E. Phillips New World of Words (new ed.) Ordinary,..Also the Bishop of the Diocesses Sub at Sessions and Assizes, to give Malefactors their Neck-verses, and to judge whether they read or no.
1700 W. Congreve Way of World iii. i. 43 The Ordinary's paid for setting the Psalm, and the Parish-Priest for reading the Ceremony.
1743 H. Fielding Jonathan Wild iv. i, in Misc. III. 286 In Newgate..the Ordinary himself..declared that he was a cursed Rogue, but no conjurer.
1818 W. Hazlitt Lect. Eng. Poets (1870) v. 187 He is a kind of Ordinary, not of Newgate, but of nature.
1890 Dict. National Biogr. at Goodcole, Henry His ministrations seem to have proved acceptable to the condemned prisoners at Newgate, whom he attended by leave of the ordinary.
1900 Sir W. Besant in Daily News 3 Sept. 6/2 The prisoner was conveyed to the spot in a cart beside his own coffin, while the ordinary sat beside him and exhorted him.
1991 Hist. Jrnl. 34 764 In an earlier study of criminal biographies written by the Ordinary (chaplain) of Newgate prison, Peter Linebaugh argued that it was necessary that criminals who were sentenced to death confessed their crimes.
II. Rule or ordinance.† 8. † 9. A book that sets out and records rules and practices; a devotional manual containing instructions for the conduct of life. Obsolete.
a. A formula or rule prescribing a certain order or course of action; an ordinance, regulation. Obsolete.
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the world > action or operation > behaviour > a standard of conduct > [noun] > prescribed rule of conduct > a prescribed course or procedure
form1297
ordinarya1400
a1400 (c1303) R. Mannyng Handlyng Synne (Harl.) 10909 (MED) With þese prestes hyt shulde fare so, whan here parysshenes oghte mysdo, wyþ feyre techyng..And with ordynaryys of holy cherche.
?a1475 Ludus Coventriae (1922) 79 To obey þe ordenaryes of þe temple.
b. A prescribed or customary course or procedure; a regular custom or habit. Obsolete.
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the world > action or operation > behaviour > customary or habitual mode of behaviour > [noun] > a habit or practice
thewc888
customa1200
wonec1200
moursc1250
usec1384
usancea1393
usagea1400
stylec1430
practice1502
commona1525
frequentation1525
ordinary1526
trade?1543
vein1549
habit1581
rut1581
habitude1603
mores1648
tread1817
dastur1888
1526 Eltham Ordinances in Coll. Ordinances Royal Househ. (1790) 140 The Serjeant of the bakehouse..to make & bake the bread..according to the auntient ordinary of the household.
1594 R. Carew tr. J. Huarte Exam. Mens Wits xii. 193 Oft times they procure the feuer, and their ordinarie is to make melancholie by adustion.
1685 J. Erskine Jrnl. 22 Nov. (1893) 167 He was a Lutheran, it was their ordinary to work on that day.
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society > faith > artefacts > book (general) > other books > [noun] > devotional book
primer1378
ordinarya1475
rosary1525
diurnal?a1550
Book of Hours1709
a1475 J. Fortescue Governance of Eng. (Laud) (1885) 149 (MED) How a new counsellour shall be chosen, how mony owres off the day this counsell shall sytt..mowe be..putt in a boke, and that boke kept in this counsell as a registir or a ordinarye.
1502 tr. Ordynarye of Crysten Men (de Worde) sig. tt.iii v Here endeth the booke named the ordynarye of crysten men..Enprynted..in the Flete Strete..by Wynken de worde.
1548 A. Scoloker tr. C. van der Heyden (title) The ordenarye for all faythfull Chrystians to leade a vertuous and godly lyfe.
1633 in A. F. Johnston & M. Rogerson Rec. Early Eng. Drama: York (1979) I. 591 They thincke it fit that theis Articles followinge bee inserted into the Musitians Ordinary.
10. Christian Church. A rule prescribing, or book containing, the order of divine service, esp. that of the Mass; the established order or form for saying mass; the service of the Mass, or that part preceding and following the canon. In the Roman Catholic Church (usually with capital initial): those parts of a service, esp. the Mass, which do not vary from day to day; spec. those unvarying parts which form the mass as a musical setting (Kyrie, Gloria, Credo, Sanctus, Benedictus, and Agnus Dei). Also in extended use.
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society > faith > worship > observance, ritual > [noun] > instance or form of
churchOE
servicelOE
rightlOE
observancea1250
officec1300
preachingc1350
ritec1350
ceremonyc1380
usea1382
prayerc1384
form1399
ordinancea1400
ordera1425
worship?a1425
worshippingc1443
common prayer1493
common servicea1500
ordinarya1513
celebrity1534
church servicea1555
religious exercise1560
function1564
agend1581
church office1581
liturgy1593
Common Prayer service1648
ritualities1648
ceremonial1672
hierurgy1678
occasion1761
religiosities1834
cursus1865
joss-pidgin1886
worship service1929
society > faith > worship > observance, ritual > rule, rubric > [noun]
ceremonialc1380
rubrica1400
rubrishc1405
ordinarya1513
cautel1541
society > faith > worship > parts of service > ordinary > [noun]
ordinarya1513
society > faith > artefacts > book (general) > service book (general) > [noun] > containing directions for worship > Roman Catholic
ordinala1325
consuetudinarya1513
ordinarya1513
directory1759
ordo1849
a1513 R. Fabyan New Cronycles Eng. & Fraunce (1516) I. ccxxii. f. cxliii Bokes that were occupyed in the deuyne seruyce of the churche, As the Ordynall or Consuetudynary, the whiche..is nowe named Salysbury vse, or the Ordynary after Salysbury vse.
1655 T. Fuller Church-hist. Brit. iii. 9 Osmund, Bishop of Salisbury, devised that Ordinary, or form of Service, which hereafter was observed in the whole Realm.
a1832 J. Mackintosh Hist. Revol. Eng. (1834) ix. 243 Judicial determinations, which recognised his [sc. the King's] right..to make ordinaries for the outward rule of the church.
1929 E. C. Thomas Lay Folks' Hist. Liturgy i. v. 22 These Nestorian Liturgies differ in the Anaphora, but the Ordinary of the Mass is the same in all.
1944 W. Apel Harvard Dict. Music 523/2 Other services [than the Mass]..also comprise invariable and variable portions. For instance, the Magnificat forms a part of the Ordinary of Vespers.
1979 W. Kennedy Ironweed v. 122 She read the ordinary of the mass until she came to the Lesson.
1994 R. Hellenga Sixteen Pleasures vii. 131 One of the brothers reads from the Ordinary, and the others give the responses in unison.
III. Something ordinary, regular, or usual.† 11. A lecture read at regular or stated times; spec. a regular reading from the Bible as an observance within a household. Obsolete.
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society > education > teaching > means of teaching > [noun] > instructive discourse > lecture
ordinary?a1475
lecture1536
prelection1565
lection?1566
leccer1899
telelecture1955
?a1475 (?a1425) tr. R. Higden Polychron. (Harl. 2261) (1882) VIII. 219 (MED) Hit happede seynte Edmunde to forgete that impression..by studyenge for an ordinary [L. lectionem] to be redde in the morowe foloynge.
c1574 in G. Peacock Observ. on Statutes of Cambridge (1841) App. A. p. xliv The Bedellys shall sett the Doctor from hys place to the commyn Scolys to rede his Ordynarye.
1665 W. Pringle in Sel. Biogr. (1845–7) I. 459 My ordinary this morning was from the 9th verse of this 5th chapter to the end.
12. † a. Customary fare; a regular daily meal or allowance of food; (hence, by extension) a fixed portion, an allowance of anything. Obsolete.† d. A gambling game carried on at an ordinary. Obsolete.
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the world > food and drink > food > supply of food or provisions > rations > [noun]
liverisona1325
ordinary1481
allowance1526
diet1533
commons1541
common1638
ration1687
dietary1838
the mind > possession > giving > distributing or dealing out > an allotted share, portion, or part > [noun] > definite or fixed
liveryc1330
allowance1440
stint1447
ordinary1481
measure1552
dimensum1631
plotment1634
limitage1635
scantling1660
ratio1751
sizing1823
ration1915
1481 W. Caxton tr. Myrrour of Worlde iii. xvi. 168 They..reteyne and kepe more goodes and richesses than [printed that] they nede for their ordynarye [Fr. a son vivre].
1577 R. Stanyhurst Treat. Descr. Irelande iii. f. 9v/2, in R. Holinshed Chron. I Albeit..his house is frequented..of the Nobilitie.., yet his ordinarie is so good, that a very few set feastes are prouided for them.
1600 R. Surflet tr. C. Estienne & J. Liébault Maison Rustique i. xxviii. 178 Giue him rather some haie to eate, then to lead him to water, and after that to giue him his ordinary of oates.
1667 R. Allestree Causes Decay Christian Piety viii. 232 Nor is he now to be lookt on as a Gentleman, whose single Ordinary costs not as much as would be..a fair exhibition for some whole families.
a1668 W. Waller Divine Medit. (1839) 45 Behemoth is satisfied with that ordinary which the mountaines bring him forth.
1718 R. Finlayson Arbroath Documents (1923) 25 Pay to Robert Davidson cou herd three pound sex shilling and eight pennies Scots, and that as his ordinary for his skeath for keeping of the toun's kine.
1894 R. L. Stevenson Lett. (1899) II. 344 Add an egg to her ordinary.
b. A meal regularly available at a fixed price in a restaurant, public house, tavern, etc. Formerly also: the company frequenting such a meal, the ‘table’. Also figurative. Now chiefly historical.
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the world > food and drink > food > meal > [noun] > communal or public meal
ordinar1553
public table1561
ordinary1589
penny-commons1615
fellowshipa1650
ordinary suppera1661
house dinner1818
table d'hôte1821
grubbery1831
syssitia1835
mess1840
hall1861
potluck1867
syssition1874
1589 T. Nashe To Students in R. Greene Menaphon Epist. sig. A2v They might haue..dinde euerie daie at the pease porredge ordinarie with Delphrigus.
1650 T. Fuller Pisgah-sight of Palestine iii. 328 He kept a daily Ordinary (thanks being the onely shot his guests were to pay).
1678 Young Man's Calling 58 Civil and loving society..is natures table of ordinary.
1709 R. Steele Tatler No. 135. ⁋6 In the presence of the whole Ordinary that were now gathered about him in the Garden.
1748 Ipswich Jrnl. 16 July 4/2 The White Lion in Brightlingsea... There will be a Twelve penny and six-penny ordinary ready at One o’Clock.
1750 W. Kenrick (title) The Kapélion, or poetical ordinary; consisting of great variety of dishes in prose and verse.
1771 H. Mackenzie Man of Feeling xix. 44 A board hung out of a window, signifying, ‘An excellent Ordinary Saturdays and Sundays’.
1816 S. T. Coleridge Statesman's Man. 47 The two public ordinaries of Literature, the circulating libraries and the periodical press.
1849 Durham County Advertiser 27 Apr. 1/1 Grand Match at Cricket... An Ordinary on the Ground each Day at two o’clock, supplied by Mr. Brown, of the Three Tuns Hotel—Tickets, 2s. 6d. each.
1887 H. Smart Cleverly Won v Joe..played a very good knife and fork at the farmers' ordinary.
1922 J. Joyce Ulysses ii. xiv. [Oxen of the Sun] 380 He took his ordinary at a boilingcook's.
1976 N. Roberts Face of France xv. 157 The establishment in an English market town which still does a good farmers' ordinary.
1999 Healthy Eating Aug. 67/2 Many people ate their dinner in eating houses, seated at long tables. Known as the ‘ordinary’, the meal consisted of a hot meat dish, bread and ale, often costing less than a shilling.
c. An inn, public house, tavern, etc., where meals are provided at a fixed price; the room in such a building where this type of meal is provided. Now historical and archaic.In Britain in the 17th–18th centuries, the more expensive ordinaries were frequented by men of fashion, and the dinner was usually followed by gambling; hence the term was often used as synonymous with ‘gambling-house’.In the U.S., the southern states, esp. Virginia, continued to use ordinary in this sense into the 19th cent., while other states used tavern (tavern n. 1).
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the world > food and drink > drink > drinking > drinking place > [noun] > tavern or public house
houseOE
tavern1297
tavern-housea1400
sunc1400
tap-house1500
tippling-housea1549
innsc1550
bousing-inn1575
ivy-bush1576
osteria1580
ordinary1590
caback1591
taberna1593
bousing-house1594
pothouse1598
red lattice1604
cupping-house1615
public house1617
busha1625
Wirtshaus1650
bibbery1653
cabaret1656
gaming ordinary1667
public1685
shop1695
bibbing-housea1704
dram-shop1725
gill house1728
rum shop1738
buvette1753
dram-house1753
grog-shop1790
wine-vault1791
pub1800
pulperia1818
pulqueria1822
potation-shop1823
rum hole1825
Wirtschaft1834
drunkery1836
pot shop1837
drinkery1840
rum mill1844
khazi1846
beer-shop1848
boozer1895
rub-a-dub1898
Weinstube1899
rubbity-dub1905
peg house1922
rub-a-dub-dub1932
rubbity1941
Stube1946
superpub1964
the world > food and drink > food > consumption of food or drink > eating > eating place > [noun] > eating-house or restaurant > other eating-houses
ordinary1590
chop-house1699
porterhouse?1730
steak house1762
beef-house1807
rotisserie1825
fish-shop1826
supper tavern1841
supper house1855
supper room1858
grill-room1883
teetotum1891
grill1896
bar and grill1903
corner-house1912
bistro1922
roadhouse1922
hot doggery1923
rosticceria1930
dinette1940
British Restaurant1941
drive-through1949
drive-up1956
sobaya1958
carvery1962
ouzeri1964
crêperie1967
steak restaurant1970
sushiya1970
steak bar1971
buka1972
kopitiam1979
bukateria1980
churrascaria1981
parrilla1981
Indian1982
theme pub1983
parrillada1984
restobar1992
1590 R. Payne Briefe Descr. Ireland (1841) 8 A man may be as well and cleanely tabled at an English house in Ireland..as at the best ordinarie in England.
1631 T. Powell Tom of All Trades 2 The vnwholsome ayre of an Eightpenny Ordinarie.
1650 in Arch. Maryland (1883) I. 294 Wine or other Provisions to bee expended in any Ordinaries within this Province.
1712 J. Swift Proposal for Eng. Tongue 24 All the odd Words they have picked up in a Coffee-House, or a Gaming Ordinary.
1774 P. V. Fithian Jrnl. in Amer. Hist. Rev. 5 315 All Taverns they [sc. Virginians] call ‘Ordinary's’.
1816 W. Brown Jrnl. ii. 230 Thence to an orniary took a Cut refreshed & fed $0.50.
1852 W. M. Thackeray Henry Esmond II. ii. ii. 37 The cost at the dearest ordinary or the grandest tavern in London could not have furnished a longer reckoning, than our host of the Handcuff Inn.
1859 Harper's Mag. May 797/2 Thus pleasantly talking, they arrived at an old Virginia ordinary—called ‘ornery’ for short.
1885 Cent. Mag. July 289/1 In the South especially travelers were often able entirely to avoid the wretched and extortionate ‘ordinaries’, as they were called.
1915 H. L. Wilson Ruggles of Red Gap xii. 211 I debated having an ordinary for such as these [sc. labourers and the working class], where they could be shut away from my selecter patrons.
1936 William & Mary Coll. Q. Hist. Mag. 16 1 [In the South] Rural hostelries affected the name ordinary; while their urban counterparts were better known as taverns.
1956 M. L. Settle O Beulah Land ii. i. 163 Whar's the ordinary hyarabouts?
1993 P. O'Brian Wine-dark Sea iii. 56 In Tom's absence the place is more like the ordinary of an inferior Portsmouth tavern than the gunroom of a man-of-war.
1995 Virginian-Pilot (Norfolk, Va.) (Nexis) 17 Feb. d1 There's a place out here toward Goochland called Tanglewood Ordinary... Until I read about ordinaries I didn't know why it was called that.
ΘΚΠ
society > leisure > entertainment > pastimes > game > games of chance > [noun] > type of game
ordinary1684
gambling game1803
creep joint1928
table game1951
lose game1971
1684 London Gaz. No. 1950/4 Rafflings, Ordinaries, and other publick Games.
13. Something of the more or most usual class or type, distinguished from others of some special sort.† a. A particular make or variety of kersey. Obsolete.
ΘΚΠ
the world > textiles and clothing > textiles > textile fabric or an article of textile fabric > textile fabric > textile fabric made from specific material > made from wool > [noun] > coarse or rough > kersey > type of > specific
dozen1523
checkarsey1552
ordinary1552
1552 Act 5 & 6 Edw. VI c. 6 §12 Kersies called Ordinaries..being well scowred, thicked, milled, dressed and fully dried, shall weigh xx. li. at the least.
b. Also with capital initial. An early bicycle of the type current between the early 1870s and the mid 1890s, having an elevated saddle, one large and one very small wheel, and no gears; a penny-farthing. Now historical. N.E.D. (1903) notes that bicycles of this type were ‘so-called for some years after the introduction of the “safety” type, c1885’ (cf. safety bicycle n. at safety n. Compounds 3).
ΘΚΠ
society > travel > means of travel > a conveyance > vehicle > vehicle propelled by feet > [noun] > cycle > bicycle > early type of > with one large and one small wheel
high-wheeler1866
high bicycle1874
high wheel1876
ordinary1888
penny farthing1891
1888 Cyclists' Touring Club Gaz. Sept. 369 A youth who, on sighting us..forthwith mounted his ordinary, rode out of the yard [etc.].
1897 Earl of Suffolk et al. Encycl. Sport I. 288/2 Osmond at his best on the Ordinary was riding when the rear-driver began to establish itself as a racing cycle.
1909 N.E.D. at Safety sb. Safety bicycle, former name for the type of bicycle now in use, differing from the ‘Ordinary’ in the lower position of the saddle.
1973 Sci. Amer. Apr. 86/1 Some remarkably low weights were achieved at a very early date, mainly for racing machines. For example, a Rudge ‘ordinary’ of 1884 weighed only 21·5 pounds.
2000 Hist. Today July 18/1 The ordinary..had indeed been essentially a racing machine—but the safety bicycle was capable of much greater speed.
c. British. Stock Market. An ordinary share (as distinguished from preference shares, etc.).
ΘΚΠ
society > trade and finance > stocks and shares > stocks, shares, or bonds > [noun] > share > types of shares
bonus share1823
preference share1842
preferred share1842
qualification shares1846
pref1849
financial1864
founder's-shares1889
preference1890
preferred1891
ordinary1898
participation1916
equity1930
leader1938
Euroequity1969
small cap1984
1898 Westm. Gaz. 9 Mar. 8/2 The market values the ordinaries at over 115–16.
1900 Westm. Gaz. 21 Aug. 7/3 Last year the ordinaries were divided into £1 shares.
1917 Econ. Jrnl. 27 190 The preference, formerly very great, for British railway ordinaries has entirely disappeared.
1964 Financial Times 23 Mar. 12/3 Plans are being considered to fund back indebtedness through..a 1-for-1 rights issue of 5s Ordinary at par.
1989 Investors Chron. 27 Jan. 82/3 Bowater resisted the initial tender price of 195p for the ordinaries and 103p for the prefs.
14. Heraldry.
a. A charge of the earliest, simplest, and commonest kind, usually bounded by straight lines, but sometimes engrailed, wavy, indented, etc.The principal charges so classed are the Chief, Pale, Bend, Bend Sinister, Fesse, Bar, Chevron, Cross, and Saltire.
ΘΚΠ
society > communication > indication > insignia > heraldic devices collective > charge: device on shield > [noun] > charge of simplest or commonest kind
honourable ordinary1572
ordinary1572
1572 J. Bossewell Wks. Armorie ii. f. 117 The field is Gules, a Cheuron de Argent, borne by the name of Folfarde. Of the same ordinarie are these ensuinge.
1610 J. Guillim Display of Heraldrie ii. iii. 43 Those Charges..which..doe peculiarly belong to this Art, and are of ordinarie vse therein, in regard whereof, they are called Ordinaries.
1610 J. Guillim Display of Heraldrie iii. xxvi. 182 Sometimes you shall find this bird borne in the forme of some Ordinary;..[as] displaied in Pale, three of them one aboue another.
1706 Phillips's New World of Words (new ed.) Jessant, or Jacent,..us'd when in a Coat of Arms a Lion or other Beast is born over some Ordinary, as over a Chief Bend, or Fesse.
1866 J. E. Cussans Gram. Heraldry 13 Charges are divided into three classes—Honourable Ordinaries, Sub ordinaries, and Common Charges.
1977 O. Neubecker Heraldry Sources, Symbols & Meaning 88 Most heraldic badges have conventional names, particularly the ordinaries, which are the basic charges made up of straight lines.
1998 Renaissance No. 12. 18/3 Major brisures involve changes of tinctures or the addition of ordinaries to indicate different branches of a family.
b. In full ordinary of arms. A book or work of reference in which heraldic charges are arranged by design and referred to the individuals or families who bear them (as opposed to an Armory, which is arranged in the order of the names of the people who bear arms). [An earlier example may occur in the title ‘An Ordinary of Arms in Colour’ on the spine of the binding, probably of c1700 or earlier, of London, College of Arms, MS A 18. The sense may have originated in a misunderstanding (perhaps through a colloquial ordinary book) of the appellation book of ordinaries properly applied in 1628 by John Withie to the manuscript work of R. Glover, Somerset Herald (1571–88; R. Glover's own MS, B.M. Tiberius D. x., has no title); it could however also arise independently from for example sense 10. Compare: A related use is apparently shown by the following:a1726 H. Wanley Descr. Harl. MS 1078 A large collection of the Arms of English Families disposed by way of Ordinary... But a table shewing the Order of this Ordinary is wanting.]
1628 J. Withie Harl. MS 1459 This is a true coppie of a booke of Armes; (otherwise called a booke of Ordinaries) wch was trickt and written by the hands of the late worthy gent: Robert Glouer Esquire Somerset-Herauld.
ΘΚΠ
society > communication > indication > insignia > heraldic devices collective > heraldry > [noun] > book of heraldic bearings
armorial1632
ordinary1780
1780 J. Edmondson Compl. Body Heraldry I. (title page) Glover's Ordinary Of Arms, Augmented and Improved.
1780 J. Edmondson Compl. Body Heraldry I. Contents A Copious Ordinary of Arms, originally compiled by Robert Glover, Somerset Herald, and now enlarged and improved.
1874 J. W. Papworth (title) An alphabetical dictionary of coats of arms..forming an extensive ordinary of British armorials.
1893 Sir J. B. Paul (title) An ordinary of arms in the public register of all arms and bearings in Scotland.
1952 A. R. Wagner Rec. & Coll. College of Arms 51 Garter's Ordinary has become an indispensable tool at the College.
1973 J. P. Brooke-Little Heraldic Alphabet 150 Ordinary of Arms. A dictionary in which arms are listed alphabetically by the charges they contain.
1988 T. Woodcock & J. M. Robinson Oxf. Guide Heraldry iii. 34 Ordinaries are collections of arms, crests, supporters, or badges arranged according to design.
15.
a. An ordinary thing or person; something of usual or commonplace character. With the: that which is ordinary, usual, or to be expected; ordinary people or things as a class.
ΘΚΠ
the mind > goodness and badness > quality of being good > mediocrity > [noun] > mediocre thing or person
ordinary1588
commonplacer1874
mill-run1928
middling1931
1588 T. Hariot Briefe Rep. Virginia sig. A3v Beeing one that haue beene in the discouerie and in dealing with the naturall inhabitantes specially imploied; and hauing therefore seene and knowne more then the ordinarie.
1624 F. Bacon Considerations War with Spain in Wks. (1879) I. 542/2 At that time Spain had no other wars save those of the Low Countries, which were grown into the ordinary.
1647 N. Ward Simple Cobler Aggawam 17 I would not have..my Animall Spirits purged any way, but by my Naturall, and those by my bodily humours, and those by such Ordinaries, as have the nearest vicinage to them.
1870 J. R. Lowell My Study Windows 136 The mastery of Shakespeare is shown perhaps more strikingly in his treatment of the ordinary than of the exceptional.
1897 Chicago Advance 2 Sept. 314/1 To touch and lift the common life about him, till its veriest ordinaries should feel the thrill of the new life.
1909 Times Lit. Suppl. 20 May 185/2 Shakespeare introduces the ordinary, whether in characters or in events, only as a foil to the extraordinary.
1978 Atlanta Jrnl. & Constit. 14 Jan. 23 t (advt.) Tapas. When you're fed up with the ordinary... Our European chef proudly presents over 40 delightfully different hot and cold appetizer treats.
1989 Sunday Correspondent 29 Oct. 47/2 Rees-Mogg has acquired a more common touch, and recently travelled the country consulting the ordinary about his draft code.
b. The ordinary or usual condition, course, or degree of something; the normal state of health, etc.; a customary or usual way of doing things. Now Scottish and Irish English (northern).In quots. 1672, 1710: a regular course of reading.
ΘΚΠ
the world > action or operation > behaviour > customary or habitual mode of behaviour > [noun] > usual course, condition, etc.
ordinary1591
normal1875
1591 H. Savile tr. Tacitus Ende of Nero: Fower Bks. Hist. iv. 177 Of a crafty and suttle wit, aboue the ordinary of those barbarous people.
a1616 W. Shakespeare As you like It (1623) iii. v. 43 I see no more in you then in the ordinary Of Natures sale-worke. View more context for this quotation
1672 J. Fraser in Sel. Biog. (1845) II. 152 Reading in my ordinary, I read these words Hag. ii. 17.
1710 J. Blackader Diary 2 July in A. Crichton Life J. Blackader (1824) 397 In reading the Scripture in my ordinary, I got both reproof and instruction.
1723 R. Wodrow Corr. (1843) III. 101 Forgive me this long scroll, which is not my ordinary, and give my wife's and my humble duty to your lady and family.
1846 J. Hamilton Mt. Olives vii. 150 If he is in his ‘frail ordinary’ he is content.
1917 N. Munro Rachel comes to Town in Jimmy Swan 193 To cheer up and encourage Rachel; just to make her think that married life's no' so dull as she would think if she saw me at my ordinary.
1996 C. I. Macafee Conc. Ulster Dict. 242/1 Your ‘ordinary’, your usual state of health.
c. One of a class of inmates in a poorhouse. historical and rare.
ΘΚΠ
the mind > possession > poverty > [noun] > poor person > poor person in receipt of relief > in an institution
spittle-man1593
ordinary1910
1910 Daily Chron. 14 Jan. 8/5 The ‘ordinaries’ (whom we should call able-bodied) were able to roam all over the building.
Phrases
ΘΚΠ
the world > action or operation > behaviour > customary or habitual mode of behaviour > in habitual or customary use [phrase] > usually or ordinarily
in general1526
most times1556
of (also for, in) ordinary1556
in a general way1660
in common1819
as a rule1828
1556 J. Heywood Spider & Flie lii. 17 Spiders of ordinarie haue store Of all municion, for warrs redie rated.
1589 G. Puttenham Arte Eng. Poesie iii. xviii. 160 In his Oration which ye know is of ordinary to be made before the Prince at the first assembly of both houses.
1762 Ld. Kames Elements Crit. I. ii. 83 May we not with equal reason derive from self-love the affection a man for ordinary has to them [sc. children]?
1808 T. Jefferson Writings (1830) IV. 112 We shall man them, in ordinary, but with their navigating crew of eight or ten good seamen.
a1860 J. Younger Autobiogr. (1881) 100 Your auld creeshy weaver breeks, that ye dicht aye ye're fingers on in ordinary.
1895 T. Hardy Jude vi. v, in Wks. (1896) VIII. 459 Unlike a woman in ordinary, whose eye is so keen for material things, Sue seemed to see nothing of the room they were in.
P2. in ordinary: in an official capacity. Chiefly used (now usually hyphenated) as postmodifier in official titles such as chaplain-in-ordinary, physician-in-ordinary (to the nobility, royalty, etc.); = ordinary adj. 2b. Also in extended use. [Apparently an expansion of ordinary adj. 2b, and like it opposed to extraordinary adj. 2. With chaplain-in-ordinary compare:]
a1553 King Edward VI Jrnl. ann. 1551 in Lit. Remains (1857) II. 376 It was apointed I shuld have 6 chapelins ordinary, of wich tow ever to be present, and foure alwayes absent in preaching.
ΘΚΠ
society > authority > office > holder of office > [phrase] > regular or fully recognized
in ordinary1621
society > occupation and work > worker > workers according to conditions > [adjective] > in (regular) employment > belonging to staff
in ordinary1621
staffed1949
1621 M. Wroth Countesse of Mountgomeries Urania 476 I came again, hauing liberty to behold them, but neuer any more to serue in ordinary.
a1631 J. Donne Poems (1633) 53 Favorite in Ordinary, or no favorite bee.
a1639 H. Wotton View Life & Death Duke of Buckingham in Reliquiæ Wottonianæ (1651) 78 There is conveyed to Master Villiers an intimation of the Kings pleasure..to be..his Cup-bearer at large; and the Summer following he was admitted in Ordinary.
1655 I. Walton Compl. Angler (ed. 2) i. 11 Therefore I think my Eagle is so justly stiled, Joves faithful servant in Ordinary.
1707 J. Chamberlayne Angliæ Notitia (ed. 22) iii. 550 (List of Queen's Officers and Servants) Physicians in Ordinary to her Majesty's Person.
1728 Chamberlayne's Magnæ Britanniæ Notitia (ed. 29) ii. Gen. List 264 The Establishment of Her Majesty's Houshold... Ladies of the Bed-Chamber in Ordinary..Ladies of the Bed-Chamber Extraordinary.
1785 F. Pilon Barataria ii. 32 But, my Lord, so many of your predecessors having been poison'd by the cooks, the Duke has appointed a physician in ordinary to inspect and determine what is proper or noxious to the constitution.
1815 R. Heber Let. 12 Feb. in A. Heber Life R. Heber (1830) I. xiii. 427 One Zedekiah, a Jew and magician in ordinary to Wenceslaus, King of Bohemia,..swallowed the court-jester..all save his shoes.
1858 W. M. Thackeray Virginians I. xlvi. 362 May my cursed fortunes, too, better themselves, is the prayer of Your honour's afflicted Chaplain in Ordinary, J. S.
1895 Econ. Jrnl. 5 8 In 1752 he became Physician in Ordinary to the King.
1934 Burlington Mag. Oct. 182/2 In this very year, January 1431, the King's painter to Charles IX of France was Henry Mellein, and his painter-in-ordinary was Conrad de Vulcop.
1997 Church Times 31 Jan. 6/5 In 1974 he was made a Lieutenant of the Victorian Order—the personal gift of the Queen, to whom he was Priest-in-Ordinary for seven years.
P3. out of the ordinary: not in the ordinary or expected course of things; not usual or commonplace. [Compare French contre l'ordinaire (1678).]
ΚΠ
1873 M. Oliphant Innocent xxix. 219 ‘Something wrong?’.. ‘Oh, nothing particular—nothing out of the ordinary.’
1893 Chicago Advance 14 Sept. 686/4 Something out of the ordinary was anticipated in the labor parade last Monday.
1916 G. O'Keeffe Let. Feb. in G. O'Keefe & A. Pollitzer Lovingly, Georgia (1990) 153 Nothing short of a volcanic eruption in my life something out of the ordinary happening could induce me to think of doing such a rash thing as to have my suit cleaned and pressed.
1977 ‘D. Cory’ Bennett iv. 121 The case I'm engaged on..is rather out of the ordinary.
1992 New Age Jrnl. Feb. 56 (advt.) Tofu that's out of the ordinary in taste, texture, firmness and freshness.
Compounds
C1. (In sense 12.)
a. † ordinary door n. Obsolete rare† ordinary supper n. Obsolete rare
ΚΠ
1681 in J. H. Trumbull Public Rec. Colony of Connecticut (1859) III. 78 He shall give publique notice..at a town meeting or by a writing set up upon the ordinary or mill dore.
ΘΚΠ
the world > food and drink > food > meal > [noun] > communal or public meal
ordinar1553
public table1561
ordinary1589
penny-commons1615
fellowshipa1650
ordinary suppera1661
house dinner1818
table d'hôte1821
grubbery1831
syssitia1835
mess1840
hall1861
potluck1867
syssition1874
the world > food and drink > food > meal > [noun] > evening meal or supper
supperc1300
collationc1305
mid-dinnera1500
Sunday suppera1580
supper1598
evening meal1620
late dinner1649
ordinary suppera1661
petit souper1751
souper1787
ball supper1794
tray supper1825
kitchen supper1837
bump supper1845
evenmeat1848
tea-dinner1862
luncheon1903
a1661 W. Brereton Trav. (1844) 93 We were well used: 6d. ordinary supper, and 4d. breakfast.
b. † ordinary keeping n. Obsolete innkeeping.† ordinary table n. Obsolete the table at which an ordinary was served and which was afterwards cleared for gambling; (hence) a gambling-table or gambling-house.
ordinary keeper n. chiefly U.S. (now historical) an innkeeper.
ΘΚΠ
the world > food and drink > food > consumption of food or drink > eating > keeper of eating-house > [noun]
hostc1290
taverner1340
hosteler1350
cookc1390
ostlera1400
goodman1430
innkeeperc1449
hosterc1503
hostler?a1505
tabler1569
tavern-keeper1611
ordinary keeper1644
cantinier1721
landlord1724
traiteur1751
tavern-man1755
restaurateur1793
restorator1796
restauranteur1837
restauranter1863
the world > food and drink > drink > providing or serving drink > [noun] > inn or tavern keeping > innkeeper
tappera1000
tapsterc1000
wifeOE
taverner1340
gannekerc1380
tippler1396
alewifec1400
vintnerc1430
alehouse-keeperc1440
ale-taker1454
innholder1463
cellarman1547
ale draper?1593
pint pot1598
ale-man1600
nick-pot1602
tavern-keeper1611
beer-monger1622
kaniker1630
ordinary keeper1644
padrone1670
tap-lash?1680
ale-dame1694
public house keeper1704
bar-keeper1712
publican1728
tavern-man1755
Boniface1795
knight of the spigot1821
licensed victualler1824
thermopolite1832
bar-keep1846
saloon-keeper1849
posadero1851
Wirt1858
bung1860
changer1876
patron1878
bar-tender1883
soda-jerker1883
bar steward1888
pub-keeper1913
1644 in G. Thomann Amer. Beer (1909) v That no ordinary keeper or victualler be permitted at all to sell or utter any wine or strong liquor but strong beer only.
1712 S. Sewall Diary ii. 340 John Rickard, Ordinary-keeper, our quondam Landlord dyes this day.
1881 J. Riker Harlem xvii. 298 The removal of Verveelen to Papparinamin having left the village without an ordinary keeper, Cornelis Jansen Kortright..was admitted June 2d to keep the ordinary, on the usual conditions.
2000 Richmond (Va.) Times-Dispatch (Nexis) 16 Apr. John Brooke, an ordinary keeper, bought this lot in 1712.
ΘΚΠ
the world > food and drink > drink > providing or serving drink > [noun] > inn or tavern keeping
tippling1531
innkeeping1584
ale drapery?1593
ordinary keeping1670
taverning1774
posadaship1923
1670 in Proc. Essex Inst. (1867) 5 111 It is to be feared..yt his ordinary-keeping may be a snare to ye looser sort of people.
1710 in Early Rec. Town of Providence (Rhode Island) (1896) X. 113 Anne Tirpin tooke a licence for Ordinary Keeping and gave bond.
ΘΚΠ
society > leisure > entertainment > pastimes > game > games of chance > [noun] > table
ordinary table1578
gaming table1598
whimsy-board1702
gaming board?1716
play-table1717
green table1724
gambling table1769
table1770
1578 J. Lyly Euphues f. 63v Frequent not those ordinarie tables wher..yee both spende your money vaynely and your time idly.
1656 T. Heywood Sir Richard Wittington 64 As also the ordinary Tables of the Lord Maior and the Sheriffes, where there is free and generous entertainment for all men of fashion, and quality.
1883 H. H. S. Croft in T. Elyot Gouernour I. i. xxvi. 274 (note) ‘Hells’ in England..were previously known as ‘Ordinary-Tables’.
C2. (In sense 6.)
a. † ordinary book n. Obsolete rare† ordinary ship-keeper n. Obsolete
ΚΠ
1762 P. Durell Let. 11 Dec. in Barrington Papers (1937) (modernized text) I. 385 They may..be borne on the Ordinary Books of the Yard, until the Ship is cleared.
ΚΠ
1618 Rep. Comm. State of Navy in J. Charnock Hist. Marine Archit. (1801) ii. ix. 237 The rigging at the setting forth may bee performed by the ordinary shipp-keepers.
a1642 W. Monson Naval Tracts (1704) iii. 325/2 The Victualling of the Ordinary Ship keepers.
b. † ordinary man n. Obsolete a person attending a warship laid up in harbour.
ΘΚΠ
society > armed hostility > hostilities at sea > seafaring warrior or naval man > naval officials > [noun] > staff employed on laid-up ship > one of
ordinary man1656
1656 Ld. Orrery Parthenissa V. iii. iii. 135 A couple of ordinary men who had reship'd themselves again for Asia.
1769 W. Falconer Transl. Phrases & Terms in French Marine in Universal Dict. Marine sig. I2v Matelots-gardien, the ordinary-men of a royal dock-yard, and its harbour or dock.
1861 in Official Rec. Union & Confederate Navies War of Rebellion (U.S. Naval War Rec. Office) (1896) 1st Ser. IV. 21 In the yard there were 80 ordinary men, 40 marines, and 60 men, about, in each of the two vessels.
Derivatives
ΘΚΠ
society > travel > transport > cycling > [noun] > cyclist > on other specific type of bicycle
ordinaryist1889
skyscraper1892
mountain biker1984
1889 Pall Mall Gaz. 10 May 1/1 Taken altogether, the riding of the safety men was infinitely better than that of the ordinaryists.
1891 Wheeling 4 Mar. 426 On a wet day a safety rider is simply coated with mud, while the ordinaryist is comparatively clean.
ΘΚΠ
the mind > goodness and badness > quality of being good > mediocrity > [noun] > mediocre person > personality or quality of
ordinaryshipa1661
society > travel > travel by water > vessel, ship, or boat > war vessel > [noun] > laid-up war vessel
ordinaryshipa1661
a1661 T. Fuller in Webster's Amer. Dict. Eng. Lang. (1886) 920/1 The same..doth not destroy his ordinaryship, but only showeth that he was made an ordinary in an extraordinary manner.
1830 Westm. Rev. 13 451 His Ordinaryship sitting in three new characters at once.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2004; most recently modified version published online June 2022).
ordinaryadj.adv.
/ˈɔːdᵻn(ə)ri/, /ˈɔːdn̩(ə)ri/, U.S. /ˈɔrdnˌɛri/ A. adj.† 3. Conformable to order or rule; regular; orderly; methodical. Obsolete.
1. Law. Of a judge: having regular jurisdiction, i.e. exercising authority by virtue of office and not by special deputation; esp. empowered ex officio to take jurisdiction of ecclesiastical or spiritual cases. Now only in special collocations: see note below. Formerly also, of jurisdiction, ecclesiastical power, etc.: †exercised ex officio (obsolete). Judge Ordinary n. [compare post-classical Latin judex ordinarius (from c1211 in British sources)] (a) between 1857 and 1875, a judge of the Matrimonial Causes Court (now historical); (b) in Scotland, the sheriff of a county. Lord Ordinary n. Scots Law a judge sitting in the Outer House of the Court of Session.
ΘΚΠ
society > faith > church government > ecclesiastical authority > [adjective]
ordinarya1402
cathedral1608
society > law > administration of justice > one who administers justice > judge > [noun] > in Scotland
sheriff principal1446
Justice General1487
Senator of the College of Justice1540
commissary1567
justiciarc1575
Lord Justice General1586
sessioner1597
Justice Clerk1672
Lord Probationer1711
Lord Ordinary1722
sheriff depute1815
sheriff1816
society > law > administration of justice > one who administers justice > judge > [noun] > judges with other specific jurisdiction
president1491
Judge Ordinarc1670
judge of probate1692
Judge Ordinary1754
probate judge1776
vice-chancellor1813
probate1863
LJ1866
V.C.1866
trial judge1892
a1402 J. Trevisa tr. R. Fitzralph Defensio Curatorum (Harl.) (1925) 40 For parischons of eny chirche to schryue hem onlich to oon persone, þe ordenarye persone is more worþi to be chosen þan eny freres persone.
1483 W. Caxton tr. Caton Aviij To understonde the sentence of thy Iuge competent and ordynarye.
1534 Act 26 Hen. VIII c. 3 §7 Archebysshoppes and bysshoppes, and all other hauing iurisdiction ordinary.
1560 J. Knox Hist. Reformation in Scotl. (1848) II. 63 Providing..that this be not prejudiciall to the ordinarie jurisdictioun of judgeis.
a1600 R. Hooker Of Lawes Eccl. Politie (1648) viii. sig. Eev Our Judges in causes Ecclesiasticall, are either Ordinary or Commissionary; Ordinary, those whom we term Ordinaries & such by the Laws of this Land are none but Prelates only.
1656 J. Bramhall Replic. to Bishop of Chalcedon v. 200 They have yet another evasion, that the highest ecclesiasticall Power was given..to Saint Peter as an ordinary Pastor to descend from him to his Successors.
1722 W. Forbes Institutes I. iv. 230 Where Facts pleaded are not instantly verified, the Lord Ordinary admits the same to Proof; and determines the Manner of Proof.
1722 W. Forbes Institute ii. 194 The ordinary Lords are all imployed on the Session Days in different Capacities.
1754 J. Erskine Princ. Law Scotl. I. i. ii. §12 On the border between Scotland and England, warrants are granted of course by the judge ordinary of either side.
1814 Sc. Creditors Act (54 George III, ch. 137) s 4 The Messenger or other Person employed in executing a Poinding for Debt..shall forthwith report his Execution of Poinding to the Sheriff, or other Judge Ordinary.
1861 G. Ross W. Bell's Dict. Law Scotl. (rev. ed.) 600/1 In the Court of Session, the judge before whom a cause depends in the Outer-House is called the Lord Ordinary in that cause. And the judge who officiates in the Bill-Chamber is called the Lord Ordinary on the Bills.
1872 Wharton's Law Lexicon (ed. 5) Judge Ordinary, the judge of the Court for Divorce.
1904 W. S. Gilbert Fairy's Dilemma (1911) II. i. 26 But, confound it, madam, they're married! How can you put that right? Whoever you are, you're certainly not the Judge Ordinary!
1983 Session Cases 138 On 28th September 1982 the Lord Ordinary..ordered the defender to deliver up the child to the pursuer.
1990 Family Law Rep. 7 In the new Divorce Court, under s. 55 of the Matrimonial Causes Act 1857, and r. 62 of the 1865 Rules, applications for a new trial or rehearing were to be made to the Judge Ordinary.
2.
a. Belonging to the regular or usual order or course of things; having a place in a fixed or regulated sequence; occurring in the course of regular custom or practice; normal; customary; usual.
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the world > action or operation > behaviour > customary or habitual mode of behaviour > [adjective] > usual or ordinary
commona1325
naturalc1390
ordinarc1400
ordinary?a1425
ilk-day's1488
naturely?c1510
famous1528
familiar1533
vulgar1553
workaday1554
modern1591
tralatitious1653
commonish1792
workday1808
everyday1813
bread and butter1822
normal1843
common-seeming1857
tralatician1893
wake-a-day1893
?a1425 tr. Guy de Chauliac Grande Chirurgie (N.Y. Acad. Med.) f. 25 Ouer þat in flegmone often tymez comeþ yuel accidentz which peruerteþ & chaungeþ þe ordinarie [?c1425 Paris ordynate; L. ordinariam] cure, as is grete akyng when it is in a sensible membre.
a1475 J. Fortescue Governance of Eng. (Laud) (1885) 120 (MED) Ordinance ffor the kynges ordinarie charges.
a1500 tr. A. Chartier Traité de l'Esperance (Rawl.) (1974) 122 (MED) His iustice is thyne ordenary iuge, but His mercy He made a party.
1577 W. Harrison Hist. Descr. Islande Brit. iii. i. f. 94v/2, in R. Holinshed Chron. I Their seruauntes haue their ordinarye dyet assigned.
1612 F. Bacon Ess. (new ed.) 84 God never wrought myracle to convince Atheists, because his ordinary works convince them.
1657 R. Ligon True Hist. Barbados 4 Her ordinary flying..is commonly more free then the best Haggard Faulcon.
1756 C. Lucas Ess. Waters i. 145 It proves a very useful, good water for the ordinary purposes of families.
1875 W. S. Jevons Money (1878) 250 In ordinary life we use a great many words with a total disregard of logical precision.
1929 R. Hughes High Wind in Jamaica i. 2 The sort of scene which makes a deep impression on the mind; far deeper than the ordinary, less romantic, everyday thing.
1991 J. Chang Wild Swans (1993) viii. 203 Instead of the ordinary army cap which everyone else was wearing he wore an old eight-cornered cap..which struck the locals as unusual and rather stylish.
b. Of an official, person employed, etc.: belonging to the regular staff or to the fully recognized class of such. Cf. extraordinary adj. 2. Now historical.The sense is now usually represented by ordinary ambassador and in ordinary (ordinary n. Phrases 2).
ΘΚΠ
society > authority > office > holder of office > [adjective] > other types of official generally
simplec1380
general1400
specialc1400
ordinary1524
supernumeral1565
supernumerary1624
unfixed1661
1508 W. Dunbar Ballade Barnard Stewart in Poems (1998) I. 177 (heading) Consaloure and chamerlane ordinare to..Loys, king of France.]
1524 R. Copland tr. J. de Bourbon Syege Cyte of Rodes in Begynnynge Ordre Knyghtes Hospytallers sig. E.11 Two ordynary ambassadours were chosen for them, one Nycholas Uergoty, and the other Piero of saynt Cretyce.
1555 W. Waterman tr. J. Boemus Fardle of Facions ii. x. 231 The Emperour..neuer speaketh to any foreine ambassadours,..excepte bothe thei and their giftes..bee purified by the ordenarie women.
1577 R. Holinshed Chron. II. 1771/2 There were in the towne of Calais fiue hundred English souldiours ordinarie... And of the townesmen not fully two hundred fighting men.
1592 R. Greene Disput. Conny-catcher sig. D2 I was an ordinary dauncer.
1621 R. Burton Anat. Melancholy i. ii. iii. vi. 135 A graue and learned Minister, and an ordinary Preacher at Alcmar in Holland.
1737 Chamberlayne's Magnæ Britanniæ Notitia (ed. 33) ii. iii. 117 Military Branch of the Ordnance..Engineer-Ordinary, Joseph Day.
1855 E. C. G. Murray Embassies & Foreign Courts vii. 68 The title of extraordinary ambassador appears in recent times to have been held more honourable than that of ordinary ambassador.
1892 Polit. Sci. Q. Mar. 10 The Comte de Beaumont-Harley, ordinary ambassador of France, who opposed the sentence, procured a pardon from James and gave the offender his freedom.
1976 W. J. Roosen Age of Louis XIV iii. 61 One of his friends who was an ordinary ambassador wrote him a letter stating that he..was negotiating nothing of importance ‘since important affairs are only confided to extraordinary ambassadors, not ordinary ones’.
2002 T. Osborne Dynasty & Diplomacy Savoy ii. 60 In 1593 he was ambassador of the duke to the Venetian Republic; in 1598 he was the Savoyard ordinary ambassador in Rome.
c. more than ordinary: (a) more in number or amount than usual; (b) (with adjective or noun) unusual; exceptional, to a greater degree than is usual; (also used adverbially) unusually, exceptionally (now rare).Formerly also †greater (also better, worse, etc.) than ordinary.
ΘΚΠ
the world > relative properties > quantity > greatness of quantity, amount, or degree > a great quantity, amount, or degree [phrase] > rather more than > more than usual
more than ordinary1560
the world > relative properties > quantity > greatness of quantity, amount, or degree > high or intense degree > greatly or very much [phrase] > extremely > remarkable or extraordinary > remarkably or extraordinarily
more than ordinary1560
and a half1636
out of (also beyond) (all) recognition1824
and how!1865
like nobody's business1930
1560 J. Daus tr. J. Sleidane Commentaries f. cccxxxixv He that taketh yerely of his subiectes more than ordinarye, iii. C. M. Ducates.
1589 G. Puttenham Arte Eng. Poesie iii. xx. 215 Surplusage..lieth not only in a word or two more than ordinary, but in whole clauses.
1606 J. Hind Eliosto Libidinoso ii. 85 sig. M3 Eliostoes..more than ordinarie obseruation of dutie.
1644 J. Milton Areopagitica 22 Though a licencer should happ'n to be judicious more then ordnary.
1670 J. Eachard Grounds Contempt of Clergy 122 The Clouds being more than ordinary thick.
a1704 J. Locke Two Treat. Govt. (ed. 2) I. §107 This designation of the person our author is more than ordinary obliged to take care of.
1747 S. Richardson Clarissa I. ii. 10 When she aim'd to be worse-temper'd than ordinary.
1852 H. B. Stowe Uncle Tom's Cabin II. xix. 24 If Eva, now, was not more angel than ordinary, she would be ruined.
1880 F. H. Burnett in Scribner's Monthly Feb. 518/2 Miss Ferrol became aware..that Louisiana was regarding her with more than ordinary interest.
1909 Westm. Gaz. 9 Mar. 4/1 A hydroplane boat having more than ordinary pretensions to speed.
1948 G. D. H. Bell Cultivated Plants Farm x. 80 Its [sc. the wild oat's] reputation as a weed of more than ordinary powers.
2002 Cathedral Music Oct. 41/2 Its specification..being of more than ordinary excellence, with its pedal having unusual amplitude and completeness.
d. Of language, usage, discourse, etc.: that most commonly found or attested; everyday, non-technical, spec. as contrasted with specialized terminology or (Philosophy) logical symbolism.
ΚΠ
1685 tr. P. Nicole & A. Arnauld Logic ii. x. 221 As when I say, All Men have two Arms. This Proposition ought to pass for true, according to ordinary use [Fr. l'usage ordinaire].
1690 J. Locke Ess. Humane Understanding ii. xxi. 121 Philosophy it self,..must have so much Complacency, as to be cloathed in the ordinary Fashion and Language of the Country.
1828 J. S. Mill in Westm. Rev. 9 145 Arranging all these propositions in that order, which (so strongly does ordinary language corroborate our view of the case) is termed their logical order.
1843 J. S. Mill Syst. Logic I. i. i. 25 We must begin by recognising the distinctions made by ordinary language.
1874 W. Wallace tr. G. W. F. Hegel Logic 43 The deeper and philosophical meaning of truth can be partially traced even in the expressions of ordinary language.
1902 W. James Varieties Relig. Experience ii. 36 Trifling, sneering attitudes even towards the whole of life... It would strain the ordinary use of language too much to call such attitudes religious.
1906 B. Russell in Mind 15 256 One of the objects to be aimed at in using symbols is that they should be free from the ambiguities of ordinary language.
1932 H. H. Price Perception viii. 256 We also stick to common sense and the ordinary usage of language.
1949 Mind 63 147 The redefinitions which are implicit in philosophical paradoxes do quite often..receive a certain backing from ordinary usage.
1951 J. Holloway Lang. & Intell. viii. 123 Ordinary language is the language of persons unacquainted even with the idea of conforming to a dictionary.
1957 J. Passmore 100 Years Philos. xviii. 438 Not all ex-students of Wittgenstein look with kindness on the ‘ordinary language’ philosophies which have latterly dominated the philosophical scene at Oxford.
1990 D. Zohar Quantum Self ii. 9 Throughout this book I shall be trying to express the concepts of quantum theory in ordinary language and in terms of the everyday.
ΘΚΠ
the world > relative properties > order > [adjective]
ordinatea1398
ordinaryc1475
orderly1553
rangé1830
cosmic1858
ranged1899
c1475 tr. C. de Pisan Livre du Corps de Policie (Cambr.) (1977) 100 (MED) It is syttyng to a prynce that he be experte in fayir langage sette by grete wysedomes and ordinary reasons [Fr. ordonneement dire ses raisons].
1529 T. More Dialogue Heresyes ii, in Wks. 183/2 Yf it were thus, God hadde lefte none ordinarye waye for his ghospell and fayth to be taught.
1555 W. Waterman tr. Josephus in tr. J. Boemus Fardle of Facions sig. U.iijv Those [lawes] that he lefte written by piecemeale..we haue framed toguether into one ordenarie treatise.
1638 R. Baker tr. J. L. G. de Balzac New Epist. II. 37 Stay your selfe within the bounds of ordinary justice.
1639 I. W. tr. P. Guybert Charitable Physitian (title page) The advice of the best and ordinariest physitians.
4. Chiefly of a person: not distinguished by rank or position; of low social position; relating to, or characteristic of, the common people; common, vulgar; unrefined, low, coarse. In later use derogatory. Now U.S. regional and Caribbean.In American English this sense is now often expressed by the spelling ornery: see ornery adj.
ΘΚΠ
the mind > attention and judgement > bad taste > lack of refinement > [adjective] > coarse
agrest?1440
robust1511
roynish1570
sowish1570
lubberlike1572
lubberly1580
ordinarya1586
roborean1656
porcine1660
coarse1680
crude1722
low1725
piggish1742
coarse-graineda1774
crass1861
coarse-fibred1872
barnyard1895
farmyard1911
rough as guts1919
society > society and the community > social class > the common people > [adjective] > common
unornOE
commona1382
vulgar1530
popular1533
plain1542
dunghill1548
ordinarya1586
plebeious1610
roturier1614
terraefilian1887
society > society and the community > social class > the common people > low rank or condition > low or vulgar person > [adjective]
carlisha1240
lewdc1380
carlc1450
villain1483
ruffian1528
shake-ragged1550
porterlike1568
popular1583
ungracious1584
ordinarya1586
tapsterly1589
mechanic1598
round-headed1598
base-like1600
strummell-patch1600
porterly1603
scrubbing1603
vernaculous1607
plebeian1615
reptile1653
proletarian1663
mobbish1695
low1725
terraefilial1745
low-lifed1747
Whitechapel1785
lowlife1794
boweryish1846
gutter1849
bowery1852
lowish1886
swab1914
lumpen1944
a1586 Sir P. Sidney Arcadia (1590) iii. ii. sig. Kk3v Any ordinary person (borne of the mud of the people).
1620 tr. G. Boccaccio Decameron I. v. ix. f. 206v I thought it a part of my bounden dutie, to entertaine you with such exquisite viands, as my poore power could any way compas, and farre beyond respect or welcome, to other common and ordinarie persons.
1659 J. Pearson Expos. Apostles Creed ii. 160 The ordinary Jewes had lost the exact understanding of the old Hebrew language.
1722 D. Defoe Jrnl. Plague Year 79 Expressions, such, as..even the worst and ordinariest People in the Street would not use.
1741 Ld. Chesterfield Let. 6 Aug. (1932) (modernized text) II. 464 To speak of Mr. What-d'ye-call-him, or Mrs. Thingum,..is excessively awkward and ordinary.
1800 Aurora (Philadelphia) 1 May 2/3 This ordinary drunken wretch is supposed to be the perpetrator.
a1968 in Dict. Amer. Regional Eng. (1996) (at cited word) No-good son-of-a-bitch, ordinary son-of-a-bitch.
1996 R. Allsopp Dict. Caribbean Eng. Usage (at cited word) Ordinary, unrefined in behaviour; carelessly crude.
5.
a. Of the usual kind; such as is usually experienced; not singular or exceptional. Often in depreciatory use: not above, or somewhat below, the usual level of quality; commonplace, mundane; (of a person) undistinguished in appearance, plain.
ΘΚΠ
the mind > goodness and badness > quality of being good > mediocrity > [adjective]
feeblec1275
demeanc1380
unnoblec1384
coarse1424
colourlessc1425
passable1489
meana1500
indifferent1532
plain1539
so-so1542
mediocre1586
ordinary1590
fameless1611
middling1652
middle-rate1658
ornery1692
so-soish1819
nohow1828
betwixt and between1832
indifferential1836
null1847
undazzling1855
deviceless1884
uncompetitive1885
tug1890
run of the mill1919
serviceable1920
dim1958
spammy1959
comme ci, comme ça1968
vanilla1972
meh2007
the world > relative properties > kind or sort > generality > [adjective] > of no special quality > commonplace
commona1382
ordinarc1400
plainc1430
famosec1449
famous1528
vulgar1580
ordinary1590
undistinguished1600
indistinguished1608
commonplace1616
unremarkable1628
irremarkable1635
bread and cheese1643
incurious1747
ordinary-looking1798
routine1826
indistinctive1846
common-seeming1857
bread-and-butterish1893
bread-and-buttery1893
timeworn1901
day-to-day1919
vanilla1972
standard1977
the mind > attention and judgement > lack of beauty > [adjective]
unfairc888
unhonestc1384
unlovesomec1390
uncomelya1400
unfreelya1400
unlovelyc1400
unbeautiful1495
beautiless1531
unpretty1562
unhandsomea1586
loveless1601
featureless1609
invenust1623
unhighted?1630
unbeauteousa1660
plain1675
wanliesum1818
unbonny1830
ordinary1847
plainish1856
unsonsy1894
1590 E. Webbe Rare & Wonderfull Things (new ed.) sig. A4v We were set to wipe the feet of the kinges horses, and to become ordinary slaues in the sayd Court.
1607 E. Topsell Hist. Foure-footed Beastes 281 A common name for ordinary Hackney-horsses.
1661 G. Rust Let. conc. Origen in Phœnix (1721) I. 81 They were Men of ordinary Intellectuals.
1710 T. Hearne Remarks & Coll. (1889) III. 52 His Books are very mean and ordinary.
1752 D. Hume Ess. (1788) i. i. 20 The most ordinary machine is sufficient to tell the hours, but the most elaborate alone can point out the minutes and seconds.
1755 S. Johnson Dict. Eng. Lang. Ordinary..Ugly; not handsome: as she is an ordinary woman.
1826 M. M. Sherwood Lady of Manor IV. xx. 146 Lady Anne was..remarkable for her ordinary appearance, her person being clumsy, and her face spoiled by the small-pox.
1847 C. Brontë Jane Eyre I. v. 73 Miss Miller was more ordinary; ruddy in complexion.
1879 Paper & Printing Trades Jrnl. No. 29. 5 The get-up and printing of both works being of the most ordinary character.
1937 Textile Mercury & Argus 17 Sept. 282/3 Mirzapur rugs..prior to about 1870..were of a very fine texture and colouring..but since then they have become very ordinary.
1992 G. Steinem Revol. from Within v. iii. 227 A plumb brunette from Toledo,..with looks that might be pretty-on-a-good-day but were mostly very ordinary.
b. Of people: typical of the population or a particular group; average; without exceptional experience, knowledge, etc.; normal.
ΘΚΠ
society > society and the community > social class > the common people > the common people of any group > [adjective]
vulgar1612
ordinary1855
rank and file1887
1597 C. Middleton Famous Hist. Chinon xi. 84 By her power..incloses him within the clift of a Rocke, against which she rouled vp a mightie stone, such as the force of manie ordinarie men was not able to remooue.
1607 F. Beaumont Woman Hater ii. i. sig. C4v You must not talke to him, as you do to an ordinary man, honest plaine sence; but you must winde about him.
1651 Bp. J. Taylor Clerus Domini iii. 17 An ordinary gift cannot sublime an ordinary person to a supernaturall imployment.
1705 tr. A. Dacier in tr. Aristotle Art of Poetry xiii. 209 A King, who has given himself over to Ambition, Fear, Hatred, Revenge, and falls into great Misfortunes, deserves pity; much more he, who is but an ordinary Man, should curb those Passions for fear they should plunge him into the same misery.
1793 E. Burke Corr. (1844) IV. 199 It is not permitted to Sir Gilbert Elliot to be an ordinary man; neither his nature nor the times will suffer it.
1807 W. Wordsworth Resolution & Independence in Poems I. 95 Choice word, and measured phrase; above the reach Of ordinary men.
1855 ‘G. Eliot’ Let. 12 May (1954) II. 201 I really think a taste for descriptive writing is the rarest of all tastes among ordinary people.
1903 G. B. Shaw Man & Superman iii. 76 But I am well aware that the ordinary man..is not a philosopher.
1975 T. Heald Deadline ii. 19 The Globe..made its appeal to ‘the man in the street’. Leader writers were instructed..to spice their texts with frequent references to ‘ordinary folk’.
1994 Vox July 101/1 The ordinary American Joe..is nowhere near as wired and alienated as the protagonist of ‘Once In A Lifetime’.
c. Stock Market. Of shares, stock, etc.: forming part of the common stock and entitling holders to a dividend from net profits. Also: designating shareholders holding such stock.
ΘΚΠ
society > trade and finance > stocks and shares > stocks, shares, or bonds > [adjective] > types of securities
unissued1703
preferable1837
ordinary1866
pre-preference1867
gilt-edge1880
gilt-edged1881
unlisted1882
voting1883
assented1907
voteless1908
senior1914
well-traded1936
medium-dated1943
off-board1943
go-go1966
unquoted1969
alpha1984
gamma1986
1866 Jrnl. Statist. Soc. 29 558 The following table shows..the dividends paid on ordinary stock in the above great companies.
1869 Bradshaw's Railway Man. 21 42 An obligation..to pay to the ordinary shareholders a dividend..at the rate of 2 per cent.
1891 Law Rep., Weekly Notes 68/2 The company had been most successful..paying a very large dividend on the ordinary shares.
1955 Times 1 July 16/5 The balance-sheet shows the increase in ordinary share capital arising from this capitalization and the manner in which the reserves have been applied.
1987 M. Brett How to read Financial Pages i. 19 A company may raise money by creating new ordinary shares and selling them for cash.
6. † a. Of common occurrence; frequent; abundant. Obsolete.
ΘΚΠ
the world > action or operation > behaviour > customary or habitual mode of behaviour > [adjective] > usual or ordinary > ordinary or of usual occurrence
naturala1425
usual?1577
ordinary1594
vulgar1607
bog-standard1962
1594 2nd Rep. Dr. Faustus xxi. sig. H2v His caparison of pure cloth of gold, whereon the rich stones were so ordinary that they tooke away ye glittering of the metall.
1600 W. Shakespeare Henry IV, Pt. 2 iv. iii. 115 Be patient princes, you do know these fits Are with his highnesse very ordinary . View more context for this quotation
1649 Cullen Kirk Session Rec. 20 May in Dict. Older Sc. Tongue (1983) V. 126/1 Delait to be ordinarie breakers of the Sabboth.
1675 tr. W. Camden Hist. Princess Elizabeth (rev. ed.) iii. 324 Tobacco-Shops are now as ordinary in most Towns as Tap-houses and Taverns.
1725 H. Sloane Voy. Islands II. 323 These are very ordinary here, but thrive not..for want of water.
b. Normally found or experienced; common, customary, usual. Chiefly in predicative use, in it is ordinary (with a person to do something, etc.); (also) it is an ordinary thing (for a person to do something, etc.). Now rare.
ΘΚΠ
the world > action or operation > behaviour > customary or habitual mode of behaviour > [adjective] > usual or customary
wonesomec1200
wonec1275
customable1381
customeda1382
useda1382
wonta1382
wonted1408
accustomed1429
vulgarc1430
usualc1444
famosec1449
customalc1450
accustomablec1475
accustomatea1513
frequent1531
accustomary1541
customary1574
frequented1586
consuetudinary1590
ordinary1605
consuetudinal1656
habitual1689
solent1694
regulation1803
usitate1885
1605 F. Bacon Of Aduancem. Learning i. sig. C1v It hath beene ordinarie with politique men to extenuate and disable learned men by the names of Pedantes. View more context for this quotation
1624 R. Burton Anat. Melancholy (ed. 2) iii. iii. ii. 477 It is an ordinary thing for women in such cases, to scrat the faces..of such as they suspect.
1670 R. Baxter Cure Church-div. 167 It is very ordinary with poor fanciful women..to take all their deep apprehensions for revelations.
1709 R. Steele Tatler No. 27. ⁋6 It is ordinary for Love to make Men Poetical.
1794 W. Paley View Evidences Christianity I. i. v. 121 This proves that a morality, more pure and strict than was ordinary, prevailed..in Christian societies.
1864 W. W. Brown Clotelle iv. 14 To behold five or six tables in the saloon of a steamer, with half a dozen men playing cards at each, with money, pistols, and bowie-knives,..is an ordinary thing on the Mississippi River.
1876 ‘G. Eliot’ Daniel Deronda I. ii. xvii. 349 I wish I had any other garment than my coat to offer you. But shall you mind throwing it over your shoulders while we are on the water? It is quite an ordinary thing to do, when people return late and are not enough provided with wraps.
1915 V. Woolf Voy. Out i Mrs. Ambrose understood that after all it is the ordinary thing to be poor, and that London is the city of innumerable poor people.
1966 D. Wakoski Discrepancies & Apparitions 80 All of this about rain and sun should relate to love because they are all so ordinary and it is ordinary for poets to make comparisons like this.
B. adv.
Ordinarily; in an ordinary manner; according to, or as a matter of, regular practice; in ordinary cases; commonly. Now rare (colloquial or humorous).
ΘΚΠ
the world > action or operation > behaviour > customary or habitual mode of behaviour > [adverb] > usually or customarily > usually or in usual circumstances
commonly1340
commona1400
ordinarily1555
ordinarly1557
ordinary1614
formally1627
normally1843
1614 T. Danett's tr. P. de Commynes's Hist. (new ed.) 24 My selfe was resident there,..being lodged at the Tournelles, and ordinary [1596 ordinarily; Fr. ordinairement] eating and lodging in the Court.
1659 Kirk Session Rec. Dunfermline 54 All those who have bein ordinarie or continuall absent fra catechising, shall be cited.
1697 tr. Countess D'Aunoy's Trav. (1706) 56 Their Sword oftentimes hangs by their side tied with a bit of Cord, and ordinary without a Scabbard.
1798 Invasion I. 276 When you are quite ordinary dressed, so that no one could guess you for ladies.
1987 M. Beckett Give them Stones xvi. 118 A whole lot of them talk Irish... They don't talk ordinary like us.
Compounds
C1.
ordinary-looking adj.
ΘΚΠ
the world > relative properties > kind or sort > generality > [adjective] > of no special quality > commonplace
commona1382
ordinarc1400
plainc1430
famosec1449
famous1528
vulgar1580
ordinary1590
undistinguished1600
indistinguished1608
commonplace1616
unremarkable1628
irremarkable1635
bread and cheese1643
incurious1747
ordinary-looking1798
routine1826
indistinctive1846
common-seeming1857
bread-and-butterish1893
bread-and-buttery1893
timeworn1901
day-to-day1919
vanilla1972
standard1977
1798 J. Baillie Tryal ii. ii, in Series Plays Stronger Passions I. 222 Ah no! it cannot be! I am but an ordinary looking girl, as my uncle says.
1891 S. Mostyn Curatica 2 That other young man, who..had a turned-up nose, and was quite ordinary looking.
1991 R. Doyle Van (1992) 63 He had two of them, two razors, the jammy bastard; an ordinary-looking one and a thin yellow one that didn't look like it could've been much good.
ordinary-sized adj.
ΚΠ
1650 Impartial Scout No. 58. 259 They mustered near Leith 33 Troops of Horse, being about 80, 70 and the least 60 in a Troop, ordinary sized Nags and fat.
1820 Philos. Trans. (Royal Soc.) 110 168 The number of larger than ordinary sized full grown fungi was greater in the newly formed sediment.
1909 Westm. Gaz. 28 Sept. 3/3 The ‘New Idea’ exemplified in these houses, into which ordinary-sized people cannot get their ordinary-sized furniture.
1990 Opera Now May 73/4 The plucked string department is furnished with two chitarrone,..a five-course guitar..and an ordinary-sized lute.
C2.
ordinary grade n. Scottish Education = O grade n.
ΘΚΠ
society > education > educational administration > examination > [noun] > school examinations > certificates
passing certificate1787
School Certificate1835
leaving certificate1871
School Cert1926
advanced level1947
matric1947
ordinary level1947
scholarship level1947
O level1949
S level1951
ordinary grade1959
Certificate of Secondary Education1961
O grade1962
GCSE1978
1959 (title) Report of the working party on the curriculum of the senior secondary school. Introduction of the ordinary grade of the Scottish Leaving Certificate.
1991 Univ. of Ulster Undergraduate Prospectus 1992 (BNC) 52 A Scottish Certificate of Education with the following grades..either band A, B or C in two subjects at the Standard grade or grades 1, 2 or 3 in two subjects at the Ordinary grade.
ordinary level n. Education (now historical) the lowest of the three levels of examination in the General Certificate of Education in England, Wales (and other countries following the English system) usually taken by pupils at the age of 16, and replaced in 1988 by the General Certificate of Secondary Education; abbreviation O level (see O level n.).
ΘΚΠ
society > education > educational administration > examination > [noun] > school examinations > certificates
passing certificate1787
School Certificate1835
leaving certificate1871
School Cert1926
advanced level1947
matric1947
ordinary level1947
scholarship level1947
O level1949
S level1951
ordinary grade1959
Certificate of Secondary Education1961
O grade1962
GCSE1978
1947 Exam. Secondary Schools: Rep. (Secondary Schools Exam. Council) 8 An examination at ‘Ordinary’, ‘Advanced’ and ‘Scholarship’ levels should be available each year to candidates who are at least sixteen on Sept. 1st.
1963 H. C. Barnard & J. A. Lauwerys Handbk. Brit. Educ. Terms 99 In 1951 the School and Higher School Certificate examinations in secondary schools were replaced by a General Certificate of Education..examination at three levels—ordinary, advanced, and scholarship.
1989 Daily Nation (Nairobi) 26 July 16/6 The school has three streams. In 1975, a herambee stream for Ordinary level classes was introduced.
ordinary ray n. Optics (in double refraction) the ray which obeys the normal laws of refraction (cf. extraordinary ray at extraordinary adj. 1d).
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1831 D. Brewster Treat. Optics xvii. §90. 146 The ray..is refracted according to the ordinary law of refraction..[and] is therefore called the ordinary ray.
1953 S. F. Mason Hist. Sci. xviii. 167 The ordinary and extraordinary rays were interconverted when the crystals were placed at right angles.
1993 Paleobiology 19 294/2 Because the calcite is birefringent, off-axis light impinging on the cornea could have resulted in a double image formation, one formed by the extraordinary rays (e-rays) and one formed by the ordinary rays (o-rays).
ordinary seaman n. Nautical a sailor of the lowest grade, ranking below an able seaman; abbreviation O.S. (see O n.1 Initialisms 1).
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society > armed hostility > hostilities at sea > seafaring warrior or naval man > [noun] > ordinary seaman
common sailor1698
ordinary seaman1702
OS1802
ranker1890
O.D.1916
hostile ord1919
erk1925
white hat1952
rate1977
1702 Proclam. 1 June in London Gaz. No. 3815/2 To..Able Seamen, Ordinary Seamen, Two Eighth Parts.
1829 G. Jones Sketches Naval Life I. 47 The second class receives two dollars less, and includes what are denominated ordinary seamen, men accustomed to salt water, but not so expert as the former.
1916 Polit. Sci. Q. 31 35 In April the Atlantic division of the International Seamen's Union set up a new scale of wages, amounting in the case of ordinary seamen to 50 per cent.
2001 Navy News Sept. 18/6 I've got people who joined as ordinary seamen who've gone on to command the Navy's destroyers as captains.
ordinary time n. †(a) Military a pace of marching slower than double time; spec. (in Britain) a speed of 75 paces per minute (cf. slow time n. 1); (in the United States) a speed of 110 paces per minute (obsolete); (b) Christian Church (also with capital initials) the parts of the liturgical year that do not fall in one of the seasons of Advent, Christmas, Lent, or Easter.
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society > armed hostility > military operations > evolution > [noun] > marching > rate of marching > specific
quick march1606
double march1661
slow time1763
ordinary time1792
quick time1802
double time1833
double1860
walk-march1874
1792 Rules & Regulations His Majesty's Forces i. 23 The word March, given singly, at all times denotes that ordinary time is to be taken.
1861 W. H. French et al. Instr. Field Artillery iv. i. 216 [No.] 354. The movements directed in the exercise for several detachments, may be made in double quick time, and the ordinary time resumed according to the principles of No. 61.
1975 Weekday Missal 342 (heading) Masses for weekdays. Ordinary time of the year.
2002 Church Times 25 Jan. 5/3 Comment is..being requested on the..printing-out of each office in full for each day of the week in Ordinary Time, and for each season of the year.
ordinary wine n. rare = vin ordinaire n.
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the world > food and drink > drink > intoxicating liquor > wine > class or grade of wine > [noun] > ordinary or table wine
table wine1673
ordinary wine1806
vin ordinaire1820
ordinaire1845
vino de pastoc1870
vino corriente1932
vin de table1948
vino da tavola1956
Tafelwein1972
vinho corrente1980
vinho de consumo1980
1806 J. Pinkerton Recoll. Paris II. vi. 102 Upon the appearance of the roti, the ordinary wine is changed for the richer kinds of Burgundy or Bordeaux.
1860 C. Dickens Uncommerc. Traveller in All Year Round 7 Apr. 558/1 I was in the dear old France of my affections. I should have known it, without the well-remembered bottle of rough ordinary wine.
1989 Jrnl. Interdisciplinary Hist. 20 151 Ten hectares is considered..medium for vineyards providing grapes for ordinary wine, and large for the fine vineyards of Burgundy, Champagne and Alsace.
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