ordinary
A person with authority; authority, ordinance.
Other meanings
A person having immediate jurisdiction in a given case of ecclesiastical law, such as the bishop within a diocese.
A judge with the authority to deal with cases himself or herself rather than by delegation.
Related words
- infraordinary
- intra-ordinary
- intraordinary
- nonordinary
- ordinarity
- ordinaryship
- subordinary
- superordinary
- supraordinary
- unordinary
- ordinarily
- ordinariness
Word history
From Latin "ōrdinārius" (regular, orderly).
Where this comes from
This definition is adapted from “ordinary” on Wiktionary, by its contributors, published under CC BY-SA 4.0. This page is published under the same licence.