Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun An obsolete form of
ordinary .
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Examples
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They createt all that mess and now brainwashing ordenary folks that they now have the answers.
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For the Phisicens and Chirurgiens, haue a stipende allowed them of ordenary at the charge of the communes.
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The night afore euery ordenary holidaie or feastefull daie: the whole clergie, and the people, ware bounde to kiepe
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Abrode in the fieldes, in a faire plaine ordenary for the purpose: all the Dukes, Erles, Barons, Lordes, and the reste of the nobilitie, together with the people of the whole kyngdome, do assemble.
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The common and ordenary trade of the Spanyard and Portingall from Lysbome to the coasts of Guyny,
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The common and ordenary trade of the Spanyard and Portingall from Lysbome to the coasts of Guyny,
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Northerly Seas are wholly congealed, making but one mas or contenent of yse, which is the more credible because the ordenary experience of our fishermen geueth vs sufficient notice thereof, by reason of the great quantitie of yse which they find to be brought vpon the cost of newefound land from those Northerne regions.
The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation 2003
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The common and ordenary trade of the Spanyard and Portingall from Lysbome to the coasts of Guyny,
The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation 2003
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The second clause, a warning against being too much carried away by excitements of play, is rendered by Hawkins, “Contend not, nor speake louder than thou maist with moderation;” and in the Washington MS., “affect not to Speak Louder than ordenary.”
George Washington's Rules of Civility Conway, M D 1890
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At Play and at Fire its Good manners to give Place to the last Commer, and affect not to Speak Louder than ordenary.
George Washington's Rules of Civility Conway, M D 1890
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