Not ordinary; exceptional; unusual.
Except in extraordinary circumstances, […]
Remarkably good.
an extraordinary poet
Special or supernumerary.
the physician extraordinary in a royal household
Anything that goes beyond what is ordinary.
[…] the sum that will probably be wanted for each head of service during the year: it is divided into the ordinary, and the extraordinaries.
From Latin extrāōrdinārius, from extrā ōrdinem (“outside the order”). By surface analysis, extra- + ordinary. Doublet of extraordinaire.
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