Ordinary definitions Webster's 1828 Dictionary OR'DINARY, a. [L. ordinarius ... 1. According to established order; methodical; regular; customary; as the ordinary forms of law or justice. 2. Common; usual. Method is not less requisite in ordinary conversation than in writing. 3. Of common rank; not distinguished by superior excellence; as an ordinary reader; men of ordinary judgment. 4. Plain; not handsome; as an ordinary woman; a person of an ordinary form; an ordinary ...
ordinary seaman definitions Merriam Webster's noun Date: 1702 a seaman ... is practically conversant with all the duties of common seamanship. ordinary seaman. See Ordinary. Webster's 1913 Dictionary Ordinary Or"di*na*ry, a. [L. ordinarius, fr. ordo, ordinis ... Order.] 1. According to established order; methodical; settled; regular. ``The ordinary forms of law.'' --Addison. 2. Common; customary; usual. --Shak. Method is not less reguisite in ordinary conversation that in writing. --Addison. 3. Of common rank, ...
Ordinary of the Mass definitions Webster's 1913 Dictionary Ordinary Or"di*na*ry, n.; pl. Ordinaries (-r[i^]z ... Obs.] I see no more in you than in the ordinary Of nature's salework. --Shak. 3. That which is so ... no other wars save those which were grown into an ordinary. --Bacon. 4. Anything which is in ordinary or common use. Water buckets, wagons, cart wheels, plow socks ... they have picked up in a coffeehouse, or a gaming ordinary, are produced as flowers of style. --Swift. He exacted ...
In ordinary definitions Webster's 1913 Dictionary Ordinary Or"di*na*ry, n.; pl. Ordinaries (-r[i^]z ... Obs.] I see no more in you than in the ordinary Of nature's salework. --Shak. 3. That which is so ... no other wars save those which were grown into an ordinary. --Bacon. 4. Anything which is in ordinary or common use. Water buckets, wagons, cart wheels, plow socks ... they have picked up in a coffeehouse, or a gaming ordinary, are produced as flowers of style. --Swift. He exacted ...
... mankind. 5. Public; general; frequent; as common report. 6. Usual; ordinary; as the common operations of nature; the common forms of ... rules of civility. 7. Of no rank or superior excellence; ordinary. Applied to men, it signifies, not noble, not distinguished by ... distinction or quality; widely known or commonly encountered; average or ordinary or usual; "the common man"; "a common sailor"; "the common ... satisfying accustomed criteria ; elementary < common decency > 5. a. falling below ordinary standards ; second-rate b. lacking refinement ; coarse 6. denoting nominal ... or being common stock • commonly adverb • commonness noun Synonyms: common, ordinary, plain, familiar, popular, vulgar mean generally met with and not ... honesty > and may additionally suggest inferiority or coarseness < common manners >. ordinary stresses conformance in quality or kind with the regular ...
Ordinary ray definitions Webster's 1913 Dictionary Ray Ray, n. [OF ... ray divided by double refraction which does not follow the ordinary law of refraction. Ordinary ray (Opt.) that one of the two parts of a ... ray divided by double refraction which follows the usual or ordinary law of refraction. Pencil of rays (Geom.), a definite system ...
ordinary shares definitions WordNet (r) 3.0 (2005) n 1: stock ... Americans invest in common stocks" [syn: common stock, common shares, ordinary shares] Collin's Cobuild Dictionary Ordinary shares are shares in a company that are owned by ...
Ordinary colic definitions Webster's 1913 Dictionary Colic Col"ic, n ... or gall bladder through the bile duct. Intestinal colic, or Ordinary colic, pain due to distention of the intestines by gas ...
ordinary care definitions WordNet (r) 3.0 (2005) n 1: the ... circumstances; the standard for determining legal duty [syn: due care, ordinary care, reasonable care]
ordinary life insurance definitions WordNet (r) 3.0 (2005) n 1 ... the entire lifetime of the insured [syn: whole life insurance, ordinary life insurance, straight life insurance]
ordinary-language philosophy definitions Merriam Webster's noun Date: 1957 a ... perplexity by revealing sources of puzzlement in the misunderstanding of ordinary language