Ordinaries - English meaning

noun

What is commonplace or standard.

Usage examples:

Their clichés were vested with enough emotion to elevate them above the ordinary

noun

A judge who exercises authority by virtue of office and not by deputation.

noun

A member of the clergy, such as an archbishop in a province or a bishop in a diocese, with immediate jurisdiction.

Usage examples:

Jeffrey steenson is canon to the ordinary in the episcopal diocese of the rio grande.

noun

Those parts of a roman catholic service, especially the mass, which do not vary from day to day.

Usage examples:

Even so, between 1592 and 1595 byrd published his three settings of the ordinary of the mass, the m…

noun

Any of the simplest principal charges used in coats of arms (especially chief, pale, bend, fess, bar, chevron, cross, saltire).

noun

Short for ordinary share.

noun

A meal provided at a fixed time and price at an inn.

noun

A penny-farthing bicycle.

adjective

With no special or distinctive features; normal.

Usage examples:

He sets out to depict ordinary people

adjective

(especially of a judge or bishop) exercising authority by virtue of office and not by deputation.

Usage examples:

Should this be the case, an ordinary judge is not allowed to disregard the national legislation but…