ordinand (ordinand)

[= F. ordinand Sp. Pg. or den an do = It. ord in an do, A plain alb was again the only dre prescribed to the ordinands, and it remained unaltered to the end of the orR. W. Dizon, Hist. Church of Eng., xvii. dination. with at any time or place; not distinguished in any way from others; hence, often, somewhat inferior; of little merit; not distinguished by superior excellence; commonplace; mean; low. Some of them hath he made high days, and hallowed them, and some of them hath he made ordinary days. Ecclus, xxxiii. 9. He has two e ential parts of the courtier, pride and ignorance; marry, the rest come somewhat after the ord i nary gallant. B. Jonson, Cynthia's Revels, ii. 1. You will wonder how such an ordinary fellow as Wood could get His Majesty's broad seal. Swift . An ordinary man would neither have incurred the danger of succouring E ex, nor the disgrace of a ailing him. Macaulay , Lord Bacon. 4. Ugly; not handsome: as, she is an ordinary woman. Johnson. [Now only in vulgar use, often contracted ornery.] Well, I reckon he [a cat who had suffered from an explosion] was praps the orneriest look in' beast you ever see. Mark Twain, Roughing It, lxi. Judge ordinary. See judge. - Lord ordinary, in the Court of Se ion, Scotland, the judge before whom a cause depends in the Outer House. The judge who officiates weekly in the bill-chamber of the Court of Se ion is called the lord ordinary on the bills. In Scotland the sheriff of a county is called the judge ordinary. Imp. Dict. - Ordinary biblic. See biblic. - Ordinary care, ordinary diligence, in law, such care or diligence as men of common prudence, under similar circumstances, usually exercise. - Ordinary conveyance, dodecahedron, equation, function, mark. See the nouns. - Ordinary neglect, ordinary negligence. See negligence, 2.-Ordinary ray, in double refraction. See refraction. - Ordinary seaman, a seaman who is capable of the commoner duties, but who has not served long enough at sea to be considered complete in a sailor's duties and to be rated as an able seaman. -Ordinary tablet, a gambling-house. Exposing the daingerous mischiefs that the dicyng howses, commonly called ordinarie tables , ., do dayley breede within the bowelles of the famous citie of London. G. Whetstone, cited in Poet. Decam., ii. 240. ( Nares .) Ordinary time, in mil it, tactics in the United States, quick time, which is 110 steps or 86 yards a minute, or 2 miles 1613 yards an hour. Wilhelm. = Syn. 1 and 2. Regu lar, etc. (see normal), wonted.-3. Vulgar, etc. (see com mon), homely. II. n.; pl. ordinaries (-riz). 1. One po e ing immediate jurisdiction in his own right and not by special deputation. Specifically-(a) In eccles . law , a bishop, archbishop, or other ecclesiastic or his deputy, in his capacity as an ex officio ecclesiastical judge; also, the bishop's deputy in other ecclesiastical matters, including formerly the administration of estates. They be not few which have licences, some of the pope, and some of their ordinarics. Tyndale, Ans. to Sir T. More, etc. (Parker Soc., 1850), p. 41. ordinary Every Minister so repelling any (from the Holy Communion] shall be obliged to give an account of the same to the Ordinary. Book of Common Prayer , Rubric in Communion Office. In spiritual causes, a lay person may be no ordinary. Hooker, Eccles. Polity, viii. 8. If the ordinary claimed the incriminated clerk, the secular court surrendered him for ecclesiastical trial. Stubbs , Const. Hist., § 399. (b) An English diocesan officer, entitled the ordinary of a ize and se ions, appointed to give criminals their neckverses, perform other religious services for them, and a ist in preparing them for death. The Ordinary 's paid for setting the Psalm, and the Parish-Priest for reading the Ceremony. Congreve, Way of the World, iii. 13. 2. A judge empowered to take cognizance of causes in his own right, and not by delegation. Specifically-(a) In the Court of Se ion in Scotland, one of the five judges, sitting in separate courts, who form the Outer House. Appeals may be taken from their decision to the Inner House. (b) In some of the United States, a judge of a court of probate. 3. The established or due sequence; the appointed or fixed form; in the Roman Catholic mi al and in other Latin liturgies, the established sequence or order for saying ma ; the service of the ma (with exclusion of the canon) as preeminent; the ordo. In the medieval English liturgical books the Latin title was Ordinarium et Canon Mi e, the ordinary and canon of the ma ; in the Roman mi al and in general Latin use the title is Ordo Mi æ, the order of the ma , and the Canon Mi e, canon of the ma , is entered as a new title. Hence some writers call only that part of the ma which precedes the canon the ord i nary or ordo. Osmund, Bishop of Salisbury, devised that Ordinary or form of service which hereafter was observed in the whole Fuller , Ch. Hist., III. i. 23. (Davies.) realm. 4. Rule; guide. They be right hangmen, to murder whosoever desireth for that doctrine, that God hath given to be the ordinary of our faith and living. Tyndale, Ans. to Sir T. More, etc. (Parker Soc., 1850), p. 169. 5. Something regular and customary; something in common use.-6. A usual or customary meal; hence, a regular meal provided at an eating-house for every one, as distinguished from dishes specially ordered; a table d'hôte. We have had a merry and a lusty ordinary, And wine, and good meat, and a bouncing reckoning. Fletcher, Wild goose Chase, 1. 2. We had in our boate a very good ordinary, and excellent company. Evelyn, Diary, Oct. 5, 1641. When I was a young man about this town, I frequented the ordinary of the Black-horse in Holborn. Steele, Tatler, No. 135. 7. A place where such meals are served; an eating-house where there is a fixed price for a meal. He doth, besides, bring me the names of all the young gentlemen in the city that use ordinaries or taverns, talking (to my thinking) only as the freedom of their youth teach them without any further ends, for dangerous and seditious spirits. Beau . and Fl . , Woman-Hater, i. 3. The place or ordinary where he uses to eat. B. Jonson, Every Man out of his Humour, iii. 1. She noticed a small inn or ordinary , where a card nailed to the door-post announced that a dinner was to be had inside at a cheap rate. J. Hawthorne, Dust, p. 397. 8. The average; the ma ; the common run. I see no more in you than in the ordinary Of nature's sale-work. Shak., As you Like it, iii. 5. 42. 9. In her., a very common bearing, usually bounded by straight lines, but sometimes by one of the heraldic lines, wavy, nebulé, or the like. See line2, 12. The ordinaries are the oldest bearings, and in general the oldest escutcheons are those which are charged only with the ordinaries, or with these primarily, other charges having been added. The bearings most generally admitted as ordinaries are the eight following: bar, bend, chevron, chief, cro , fe e, pale, and saltire; but most writers add one, some two, and others a greater number, namely one or more of the following: bend sinister, inescutcheon, quarter or franc-quartier, pile, bordure. By some writers also the subordinaries and ordinaries are considered together under one head. The ordinaries are often called honorable ordinaries, to distinguish them from the subordinaries. Bends, chevrons, and bars are three of the somewhat numerous ordinaries , so called from their frequent use. Booke of Precedence (E. E. T. S., extra ser.), 1. 97, note 2. 10. In the navy: ( a ) The establishment of persons formerly employed by government to take charge of ships of war laid up in harbors. ( b ) The state of a ship not in actual service, but laid up under the charge of officers: as, a ship in ordinary (one laid up under the direction of the officers of a navy-yard or dockyard).-Court of ordinary, the name given in Georgia to a court having general probate jurisdiction.- Court of the ordinary. See court . - Honorable ordinary. See def. 9.In ordinary. (a) In actual and constant service; statedly attending and serving: as, a physician or chaplain in ordinary. An amba ador in ordinary is one constantly resident at a foreign court. The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia: The Century dictionary IMG:content-1818.png:[blocks in formation] (b) See def. 10 (b). -Lord of appeal in ordinary. See lord. Ordinary of arms, in her., a book or table of reference in which heraldic bearings or achievements, or both, are arranged in alphabetical or other regular order with the names of persons who bear them attached the reverse of an armory. - Ordinary of the ma . See def. 3. Abbreviated ord.