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Ordinary   /ˈɔrdənˌɛri/   Listen
Ordinary

adjective
1.
Not exceptional in any way especially in quality or ability or size or degree.  "Ordinary decency" , "An ordinary day" , "An ordinary wine"  Antonym: extraordinary.
2.
Lacking special distinction, rank, or status; commonly encountered.  Synonym: average.  "The ordinary (or common) man in the street"
noun
(pl. ordinaries)
1.
A judge of a probate court.
2.
The expected or commonplace condition or situation.
3.
A clergyman appointed to prepare condemned prisoners for death.
4.
An early bicycle with a very large front wheel and small back wheel.  Synonym: ordinary bicycle.
5.
(heraldry) any of several conventional figures used on shields.



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— Psyche • Moliere
... borne in mind that Manning was essentially a man of the world, though he was much more than that. Be it far from me to disparage the ordinary type of Roman ecclesiastic, who is bred in a seminary, and perhaps spends his lifetime in a religious community. That peculiar training produces, often enough, a character of saintliness and unworldly ...
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... Sir Frank Lockwood was almost the first to put forward a plea in abatement of prejudice for the firm. He showed that they were not much below the usual type of middle-class solicitors. What they did was in the ordinary course. With Mr. Pickwick they were most forbearing, and even indulgent. There was one rather doubtful passage, but even here he offers extenuation. This was their treatment of poor Ramsey, which, at first ...
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... space comprehended within this segment is very populous, and is called the Borgo of St. Zeno. Niccolo Piccinino designed to capture these fortresses and the Borgo, and he hoped to succeed without much difficulty, as well on account of the ordinary negligence of the guard, which their recent successes would probably increase, as because in war no enterprise is more likely to be successful than one which by the enemy is deemed impossible. With a body of picked men, and accompanied by the marquis of Mantua, he proceeded by night to ...
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