ordinary

Etymology
From, et al., , and their source, , noun use of , from.

Noun

 * 1) A person with authority; authority, ordinance.
 * 2)  A person having immediate jurisdiction in a given case of ecclesiastical law, such as the bishop within a diocese.
 * 3)  A courier; someone delivering mail or post.
 * 4) * 1819,, Letter, 15 May:
 * I will lay to till you come within hail  but pray respond by the first ordinary.
 * 1)  A judge with the authority to deal with cases himself or herself rather than by delegation.
 * 2)  The chaplain of Newgate prison, who prepared condemned prisoners for death.
 * 3) Something ordinary or regular.
 * 4)  Customary fare, one's regular daily allowance of food;  a regular portion or allowance.
 * 5)  A meal provided for a set price at an eating establishment.
 * 6) * 1808–10,, Memoirs of a Georgian Rake, Folio Society 1995, p. 169:
 * 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.
 * 1)  A place where such meals are served; a public tavern, inn.
 * 2)  One of the standard geometric designs placed across the center of a coat of arms, such as a  or.
 * 3) An ordinary person or thing; something commonplace.
 * 4)  The usual course of things; normal condition or health; a standard way of behaviour or action.
 * 5)   A penny farthing bicycle.
 * 6)  A part of the Christian liturgy that is reasonably constant without regard to the date on which the service is performed.
 * 7) A book setting out ordinary or regular conduct.
 * 8)  A devotional manual; a book setting our rules for proper conduct.
 * 9)  A rule, or book of rules, prescribing the order of  a liturgy, especially of Mass.
 * 1) An ordinary person or thing; something commonplace.
 * 2)  The usual course of things; normal condition or health; a standard way of behaviour or action.
 * 3)   A penny farthing bicycle.
 * 4)  A part of the Christian liturgy that is reasonably constant without regard to the date on which the service is performed.
 * 5) A book setting out ordinary or regular conduct.
 * 6)  A devotional manual; a book setting our rules for proper conduct.
 * 7)  A rule, or book of rules, prescribing the order of  a liturgy, especially of Mass.
 * 1) A book setting out ordinary or regular conduct.
 * 2)  A devotional manual; a book setting our rules for proper conduct.
 * 3)  A rule, or book of rules, prescribing the order of  a liturgy, especially of Mass.
 * 1)  A devotional manual; a book setting our rules for proper conduct.
 * 2)  A rule, or book of rules, prescribing the order of  a liturgy, especially of Mass.

Translations

 * Finnish:
 * French:
 * Galician:
 * German:
 * Hungarian: mesteralak
 * Italian:
 * Macedonian: ординарија
 * Spanish:
 * Swedish: häroldsbild

Adjective

 * 1)  Having regular jurisdiction; now only used in certain phrases.
 * 2) Being part of the natural order of things; normal, customary, routine.
 * 3) Having no special characteristics or function; everyday, common, mundane; often deprecatory.
 * ,, "Samuel Johnson," in 1871, Lady Trevelyan (Hannah More Macaulay Trevelyan, editor), The Works of Lord Macaulay Complete, Volume 7, page 325,
 * An ordinary lad would have acquired little or no useful knowledge in such a way: but much that was dull to ordinary lads was interesting to Samuel.
 * 1)  Bad or undesirable.
 * 2) * 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, |pretty+ordinary%22+australia+OR+zealand+-intitle:%22%22+-inauthor:%22%22&hl=en&sa=X&ei=X9jIT73oD6GtiAe0550x&redir_esc=y#v=onepage&q=%22very|pretty%20ordinary%22%20australia%20OR%20zealand%20-intitle%3A%22%22%20-inauthor%3A%22%22&f=false 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.
 * 1) * 1961, Joanna White, quoted in 2005, A. James Hammerton, Alistair Thomson, Ten Pound Poms: Australia′s Invisible Migrants, |pretty+ordinary%22+australia+OR+zealand+-intitle:%22%22+-inauthor:%22%22&hl=en&sa=X&ei=X9jIT73oD6GtiAe0550x&redir_esc=y#v=onepage&q=%22very|pretty%20ordinary%22%20australia%20OR%20zealand%20-intitle%3A%22%22%20-inauthor%3A%22%22&f=false 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.
 * 1)  Bad or undesirable.
 * 2) * 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, |pretty+ordinary%22+australia+OR+zealand+-intitle:%22%22+-inauthor:%22%22&hl=en&sa=X&ei=X9jIT73oD6GtiAe0550x&redir_esc=y#v=onepage&q=%22very|pretty%20ordinary%22%20australia%20OR%20zealand%20-intitle%3A%22%22%20-inauthor%3A%22%22&f=false 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.
 * 1) * 1961, Joanna White, quoted in 2005, A. James Hammerton, Alistair Thomson, Ten Pound Poms: Australia′s Invisible Migrants, |pretty+ordinary%22+australia+OR+zealand+-intitle:%22%22+-inauthor:%22%22&hl=en&sa=X&ei=X9jIT73oD6GtiAe0550x&redir_esc=y#v=onepage&q=%22very|pretty%20ordinary%22%20australia%20OR%20zealand%20-intitle%3A%22%22%20-inauthor%3A%22%22&f=false 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.
 * 1) * 1961, Joanna White, quoted in 2005, A. James Hammerton, Alistair Thomson, Ten Pound Poms: Australia′s Invisible Migrants, |pretty+ordinary%22+australia+OR+zealand+-intitle:%22%22+-inauthor:%22%22&hl=en&sa=X&ei=X9jIT73oD6GtiAe0550x&redir_esc=y#v=onepage&q=%22very|pretty%20ordinary%22%20australia%20OR%20zealand%20-intitle%3A%22%22%20-inauthor%3A%22%22&f=false 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.

Translations

 * Afrikaans: alledaags,
 * Arabic: عَادِيّ, مَأْلُوف
 * Armenian: ,
 * Asturian: ordinariu
 * Azerbaijani:
 * Bashkir: ябай
 * Belarusian:
 * Bengali:
 * Bulgarian:, ,
 * Burmese: ,
 * Catalan:
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin:, ,
 * Czech:
 * Dutch: ,
 * Finnish:
 * French:
 * Galician: ordinario
 * Georgian: ჩვეულებრივი, უბრალო, ჩვეული
 * German: ,
 * Greek: ,
 * Ancient: ἀγελαῖος
 * Hebrew:
 * Hindi:, , ,
 * Hungarian: ,
 * Ido:
 * Irish: gnáth-, normálta, gnách, coitianta
 * Italian: ,
 * Japanese:, ,
 * Kazakh: әдеттегі, дағдылы, кәдімгі
 * Khmer: ,
 * Korean: 정규, ,
 * Kyrgyz: ,
 * Latin: ordinarius,
 * Latvian: parasts, ikdienišķs
 * Lithuanian: įprastas,
 * Macedonian: обичен
 * Malayalam:
 * Norman: ordinnaithe
 * Norwegian:
 * Bokmål:
 * Old English: ġewunelīċ
 * Persian:
 * Polish:
 * Portuguese: ,
 * Romanian:, ,
 * Russian: ,
 * Sanskrit: ,
 * Serbo-Croatian:
 * Cyrillic: о̀бичан
 * Roman:
 * Shan: သမ်ႇမၺႃႉ
 * Slovak:
 * Slovene: navaden, običajen
 * Spanish:
 * Swedish: ,
 * Tagalog: ordinaryo, karaniwan
 * Tajik:
 * Thai:
 * Tok Pisin: nating
 * Turkish: ,
 * Ukrainian: звича́йний, зви́чний
 * Urdu: عام, معمولی, سادھارن
 * Uzbek: ,


 * Bengali:
 * Bulgarian:
 * Cornish: sempel
 * Esperanto: ordinara
 * French: ,
 * Greek:
 * Ancient: ἀγελαῖος
 * Ingrian: jokapäiväin
 * Malayalam:
 * Maori: waimeha,
 * Persian:
 * Russian:
 * Spanish:
 * Tagalog: ordinaryo, karaniwan