tmediocral

[Lat. mediocris, from medius =middle.] Of a middle quality; indifferent, med i ocre. me-di-ō-cre (cre as kěr), a. & s. [Fr., from Lat. mediocris, from medius =middle.] A. As adj .: Of a moderate, indifferent, or middling quality. "A very mediocre poet, one Drayton, is yet taken some notice of."-Pope: To Dr. War burton, Nov. 27, 1742. B. As substantive: 1. Ord . Lang .: One of mediocre, middling, or in different quality, or merit. 2. Eccles .: A monk from twenty-four to forty years of age, who was excused from the office of the chantry and the reading of the epistle and gospel, but performed his duty in choir, cloister, and refectory. ( Shipley .)