Ordinary \Or"di*na*ry\, n.; pl. Ordinaries (-r[i^]z).
 
          1. (Law)
      (a) (Roman Law) An officer who has original
         jurisdiction
          in his own right, and not by deputation.
      (b) (Eng.
         Law) One who has immediate jurisdiction in
          matters ecclesiastical; an ecclesiastical judge; also,
          a deputy of the bishop, or a clergyman appointed to
          perform divine service for condemned criminals and
          assist in preparing them for death.
      (c) (Am. Law) A
         judicial officer, having generally the
          powers of a judge of probate or a surrogate.
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   2. The mass; the common run. [Obs.]
 
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            I see no more in you than in the ordinary
            Of nature's salework.                 --Shak.
     
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   3. That which is so common, or
         continued, as to be considered
      a settled
         establishment or institution. [R.]
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            Spain had no other wars save those which were grown
            into an ordinary.                     --Bacon.
     
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   4. Anything which is in ordinary or
         common use.
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            Water buckets, wagons, cart wheels, plow socks, and
            other ordinaries.                     --Sir W.
                                                  Scott.
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   5. A dining room or eating house where a meal
         is prepared for
      all comers, at a fixed price for the
         meal, in distinction
      from one where each dish is
         separately charged; a table
      d'h[^o]te; hence, also,
         the meal furnished at such a
      dining room. --Shak.
  
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            All the odd words they have picked up in a
            coffeehouse, or a gaming ordinary, are produced as
            flowers of style.                     --Swift.
     
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            He exacted a tribute for licenses to hawkers and
            peddlers and to ordinaries.           --Bancroft.
     
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   6. (Her.) A charge or bearing of simple
         form, one of nine or
      ten which are in constant use.
         The bend, chevron,
     
         chief, cross, fesse,
         pale, and saltire are
  
            uniformly admitted as
         ordinaries. Some authorities include
      bar, bend
         sinister, pile, and others. See Subordinary.
     
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   In
         ordinary.
      (a) In actual and
         constant service; statedly attending and
          serving; as, a physician or chaplain in ordinary. An
          ambassador in ordinary is one constantly resident at a
          foreign court.
      (b) (Naut.) Out of commission and
         laid up; -- said of a
          naval vessel.

   Ordinary of the Mass (R. C. Ch.), the
         part of the Mass
      which is the same every day; --
         called also the canon of the Mass.
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