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sent and institute in a benefice, when the person presenting is both the patron and the ordinary; -- followed by to.

to place it in the hands of a commissioner or commissioners during the abeyance of the ordinary administration, as between the going out of one lord keeper and accession of another. [Eng.] -- The United States Christians Commission, an organization among the people of the North, during the Civil War, which afforded ma…

Not distinguished or exceptional; inconspicuous; ordinary; plebeian; -- often in a depreciatory sense. The honest, heart-felt enjoyment of common life. W. Irving. This fact was infamous And ill beseeming any common man, Much more a knight, a captain and a leader. Shak. Above the vulgar flight of common souls. A. Murpph…

Usually; generally; ordinarily; frequently; for the most part; as, confirmed habits commonly continue trough life.

Common; ordinary; trite; as, a commonplace person, or observation.

inds, Could send such message to their sovereign. Shak. The word commons in its present ordinary signification comprises all the people who are under the rank of peers. Blackstone.

one form of government and system of laws. The trappings of a monarchy would set up an ordinary commonwealth. Milton.

A dwelling or ordinary residence in a place; habitation. Commorancy consists in usually lying there. Blackstone.

Ordinarily residing; inhabiting. All freeholders within the precinct . . . and all persons commorant therein. Blackstone.

ments. His [Goldsmith's] compilations are widely distinguished from the compilations of ordinary bookmakers. Macaulay.

ation. -- Complemental males (Zoöl.), peculiar small males living parasitically on the ordinary hermaphrodite individuals of certain barnacles.

, in the theory of numbers, an expression of the form a + bsq. root-1, when a and b are ordinary integers.

One at a university who pays extraordinary fees for the degree he is to take. [Eng.] A. Wood.

To become more compact; to be reduced into a denser form. Nitrous acid is gaseous at ordinary temperatures, but condenses into a very volatile liquid at the zero of Fahrenheit. H. Spencer.

a monastery or nunnery. One seldom finds in Italy a spot of ground more agreeable than ordinary that is not covered with a convent. Addison.

An extraordinary assembly of the parkiament or estates of the realm, held without the king's writ, -- as the assembly which restored Charles II. to the throne, and that which declared the throne to be abdicated by James II. Our gratitude is due . . . to the Long Parliament, to the Convention, and to William of Orange.…

onal decorum." Whewell. The conventional language appropriated to monarchs. Motley. The ordinary salutations, and other points of social behavior, are conventional. Latham.

prove the fallacy of. [Obs.] God never wrought miracle to convince atheism, because his ordinary works convince it. Bacon.

A surplice, in England and America usually one shorter and less full than the ordinary surplice and with short sleeves, or sometimes none.

divided that the tops appear on one side and the bottoms on the others; -- said of any ordinary.