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Etymology

From Anglo-Norman ordenarie, ordenaire et al., Middle French ordinaire, and their source, Medieval Latin ordinarius, noun use of Latin ōrdinārius (“regular, orderly”), from ōrdō (“order”).

derived from ōrdinārius
derived from ordinarius
derived from ordinaire
derived from ordenarie

Definitions

A person with authority
A person with authority; authority, ordinance.
Something ordinary or regular.
A book setting out ordinary or regular conduct.
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1. Having regular jurisdiction
  Having regular jurisdiction; now only used in certain phrases.
2. 5
  Being part of the natural order of things
  Being part of the natural order of things; normal, customary, routine.
  - On an ordinary day I wake up at nine o'clock, work for six hours, and then go to the gym.
  - Method is not leſs requiſite in ordinary converſation than in writing, provided a man would talk to make himſelf underſtood.
  - The three were now assembled in the old banqueting-hall, which, from its state of better preservation, had become their ordinary chamber.
3. 6
  Having no special characteristics or function
  Having no special characteristics or function; everyday, common, mundane; often deprecatory.
  - I live a very ordinary life most of the time, but every year I spend a week in Antarctica.
  - He looked so ordinary, I never thought he'd be capable of murder.
4. 7
  Bad or undesirable.
  - Everyone started making suggestions as to what to do but they were all pretty ordinary ideas such as lighting a fire and hope someone would see the smoke and come to rescue us and so on.
5. The part of the Roman Catholic Mass that is the same every day

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Derived

infraordinary, in ordinary, intraordinary, intra-ordinary, nonordinary, ordinarily, ordinariness, ordinarity, ordinary course of business, ordinary differential equation, ordinary number, ordinary seaman, ordinary form, ordinary language, ordinary language philosophy, ordinary magisterium, ordinary resolution, ordinary share, ordinaryship, ornery, onry, out of the ordinary, person having ordinary skill in the art, person of ordinary skill in the art, subordinary, superordinary, supraordinary, unordinary

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for ordinary. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.