Look up: ordinary

1. Ordinary
   In heraldry an ordinary is a charge or bearing of simple form, one of nine or ten which are in constant use. The bend, chevron, chief, cross, fesse, pale, and saltire are uniformly admitted as ordinaries. Some authorities also include the bar, bend sinister, pile, and others.
   Found on http://www.probertencyclopaedia.com/brow
   
   
2. ordinary
   a liturgical genre is ordinary if its text is repeated from day to day. In the mass, the musical items of the ordinary are the Kyrie, Gloria, Credo, Sanctus, and Agnus dei; the Ite missa est and the Benedicamus Domino may also be considered ordinary. A number of different melodies are associated wit...
   Found on http://people.vanderbilt.edu/~cynthia.cy
   
   
3. ordinary
   [adj] - not exceptional in any way especially in quality or ability or size or degree 2. [n] - the expected or commonplace condition or situation 3. [n] - a clergyman appointed to prepare condemned prisoners for death 4. [n] - a judge of a probate court 5. [n] - an early bicyc...
   Found on http://www.webdictionary.co.uk/definitio
   
   
4. Ordinary
   Wine consumed regularly in France.
   Found on http://www.hintsandthings.co.uk/livingro
   
   
5. ordinary
   term applied to table wines without special character which are regularly drunk as an ordinary beverage in wine-drinking countries Category: agriculture, fisheries, forestry - food processing industries
   Found on http://www.mijnwoordenboek.nl/definition
   
   
6. Ordinary
   The transaction was not covered by any of the other trade types listed.
   Found on http://www.londonstockexchange.com/globa
   
   
7. Ordinary
   Or'di·na·ry adjective [ Latin ordinarius , from ordo , ordinis , order: confer French ordinaire . See Order .] 1. According to established order; methodical; settled; regular. 'The ordinary forms of ...
   Found on http://www.encyclo.co.uk/webster/O/30
   
   
8. Ordinary
   Or'di·na·ry noun ; plural Ordinaries (-rĭz). 1. (Law) (a) (Roman Law) An officer who has original jurisdiction in his own right, and not by deputation. (b) (Eng. Law) One who has immedi...
   Found on http://www.encyclo.co.uk/webster/O/30
   
   
9. ordinary
   1. According to established order; methodical; settled; regular. 'The ordinary forms of law.' ... 2. Common; customary; usual. 'Method is not less reguisite in ordinary conversation that in writing.' (Addison) ... 3. Of common rank, quality, or ability; not distinguished by superior excellence or be...
   Found on http://www.mondofacto.com/facts/dictiona
   
   
10. ordinary
    adjective not exceptional in any way especially in quality or ability or size or degree; `ordinary everyday objects`; `ordinary decency`; `an ordinary day`; `an ordinary wine`
    Found on http://wordnetweb.princeton.edu/perl/web
    
    
11. ordinary
    noun (heraldry) any of several conventional figures used on shields
    Found on http://wordnetweb.princeton.edu/perl/web
    
    
12. ordinary
    noun a clergyman appointed to prepare condemned prisoners for death
    Found on http://wordnetweb.princeton.edu/perl/web
    
    
13. ordinary
    noun the expected or commonplace condition or situation; `not out of the ordinary`
    Found on http://wordnetweb.princeton.edu/perl/web
    
    
14. ordinary
    noun an early bicycle with a very large front wheel and small back wheel
    Found on http://wordnetweb.princeton.edu/perl/web
    
    
15. Ordinary
    • (n.) An officer who has original jurisdiction in his own right, and not by deputation. • (n.) Anything which is in ordinary or common use. • (n.) A judicial officer, having generally the powers of a judge of probate or a surrogate. • (n.) A charge or bearing of simple form, one...
    Found on http://thinkexist.com/dictionary/meaning
    
    
16. ordinary
    (from the article `heraldry`) ...and increasing variety; as more arms are devised, new objects appear as charges—telescopes, aircraft, rolls of newsprint, and so on. Charges have ...
    Found on http://www.britannica.com/eb/a-z/o/28
    
    
17. Ordinary
    [disambiguation] An ordinary is an officer of the church who by reason of office has ordinary power to execute the church`s laws. Ordinary may also refer to: ...
    Found on http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ordinary_(d
    
    
18. Ordinary
    [liturgy] The ordinary, in Roman Catholic and other Western Christian liturgies, refers to the part of the Eucharist or of the canonical hours that is reasonably constant without regard to the date on which the service is performed. It is contrasted to the proper, which is that part of these...
    Found on http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ordinary_(l
    
    
19. Ordinary
    In those hierarchically organised churches of Western Christianity which have an ecclesiastical law system, an ordinary is an officer of the church who by reason of office has ordinary power to execute the church`s laws. The term comes from the Latin word ordinarius. In Eastern Christianity, a corr...
    Found on http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ordinary
    
    
20. Ordinary
    [heraldry] In heraldry, an ordinary (or honourable ordinary) is a simple geometrical figure, bounded by straight lines and running from side to side or top to bottom of the shield. There are also some geometric charges known as subordinaries, which have been given lesser status by some heral...
    Found on http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ordinary_(h
    
    
21. ordinary
    
    • a judge of a probate court
    • the expected or commonplace condition or situation
    • a clergyman appointed to prepare condemned prisoners for death
    • an early bicycle with a very large front wheel and small back wheel
    • (heraldry) any of several conventional figures used on shields
    
    Found on
    
    
22. Ordinary
    Something that is very common,ordinary or average with no special qualities or degree of importance.
    Found on http://www.legal-explanations.com/defini
    
    
23. ordinary
    adj. regular, customary and continuing, and not unusual or extraordinary, as in ordinary expense, ordinary handling, ordinary risks or ordinary skill.
    Found on http://dictionary.law.com/Default.xhtml?
    
    
24. Ordinary
    Ordinary was in England the title of a bishop or his deputy acting as an ecclesiastical judge. In the United States, in the colonial period, the colonial governor was ex-officio ordinary, or head of the ecclesiastical courts of the colony, which then had jurisdiction of matrimonial and testamentary causes.
    Found on http://www.probertencyclopaedia.com/brow
    
    
25. ORDINARY
    Early type of bicycle which utilised a very large front wheel. Also called a 'penny-farthing', because this was the size of the rear wheel. This setup may have seemed ordinary at the time, but strikes the modern eye as quaintly mad.
    Found on http://www.bikereader.com/contributors/S