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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"

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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... The ordinary person will probably not believe this, because he conceives of good use of language as an accomplishment to be learned from books, a prim system of genteel manners to be put on when occasion demands, a sort of superficial education ...

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... found the Bible already open on the table for their evening devotions. I will close this chapter, as I began the first, with something like his prayer. David's prayers were characteristic of the whole man; but they also partook, in far more than ordinary, of the mood of the moment. His last occupation ...

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