A person with authority; authority, ordinance.
Something ordinary or regular.
The part of the Roman Catholic Mass that is the same every day
Having regular jurisdiction; now only used in certain phrases.
Being part of the natural order of things; normal, customary, routine.
From Anglo-Norman ordenarie, ordenaire et al., Middle French ordinaire, and their source, Medieval Latin ordinarius, noun use of Latin ōrdinārius (“regular, orderly”), from ōrdō (“order”).
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On an ordinary day I wake up at nine o'clock, work for six hours, and then go to the gym.
Having no special characteristics or function; everyday, common, mundane; often deprecatory.
I live a very ordinary life most of the time, but every year I spend a week in Antarctica.