ordinary, ordinariness, in ordinary, Ordinary of the Mass

 After Attack, Suspects Returned to Routines, Raising No Suspicions

By KATHARINE Q. SEELYE and IAN LOVETT

For more than three days, the very ordinariness of their activities let the Tsarnaev brothers hide in plain sight.

a doctor in ordinary

in ordinary[in ordinary]

常任の

a professor in ordinary to the government
政府常任委員の大学教授.

in ordinary courant, ordinaire, habituel

ordinary ：教區首長（主教）：有權治理教區 diocese 、代牧區 vicariate 、監牧區 prefecture 的首長，通常都稱（是）主教。詳見 local ordinary 。

Ordinary of the Mass ：彌撒常用經文：與彌撒專用經文相對照。詳見 Proper of the Mass 。

Proper of the Mass ：彌撒專用經文：彌撒經文中常變動的部分；彌撒中有些經文會隨節慶或禮儀週期而變動，如集禱經、讀經、獻禮經等，稱為彌撒專用經文；也有些經文固定不變，如求主垂憐經、天主經等，稱為彌撒常用經文 Common or the Ordinary of the Mass 。

Proper of the Season ：季節專用經文。詳見 Proper of the Mass 。

Definition of ordinary

adjective

• 1with no special or distinctive features; normal:he sets out to depict ordinary people it was just an ordinary evening
• not interesting or exceptional; commonplace:she seemed very ordinary

• 2(especially of a judge or bishop) exercising authority by virtue of office and not by deputation.

noun (plural ordinaries)

• 1 (the ordinary) what is commonplace or standard:their clichés were vested with enough emotion to elevate them above the ordinary

• 2 Law, British a judge who exercises authority by virtue of office and not by deputation.

• 3 (the Ordinary) a clergyman, such as an archbishop in a province or a bishop in a diocese, with immediate jurisdiction.

• 4 (Ordinary) those parts of a Roman Catholic service, especially the Mass, which do not vary from day to day.
• a rule or book laying down the order of divine service.

• 5 Heraldry any of the simplest principal charges used in coats of arms (especially chief, pale, bend, fess, bar, chevron, cross, saltire).

• 6short for ordinary share.

• 7 archaic a meal provided at a fixed time and price at an inn.
• an inn providing a meal at a fixed time and price.

• 8 historical, chiefly North American a penny-farthing bicycle.

Phrases

in ordinary

British (in titles) by permanent appointment, especially to the royal household:painter in ordinary to Her Majesty

in the ordinary way

British if the circumstances are or were not exceptional; normally: but in the ordinary way we shouldn’t expect to hear from him

out of the ordinary

unusual:nothing out of the ordinary happened

Derivatives

ordinariness

noun

Origin:

late Middle English: the noun partly via Old French; the adjective from Latin ordinarius 'orderly' (reinforced by French ordinaire), from ordo, ordin- 'order'