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A petty money of accounts of Persia.

See Diarchy.

Lofty in doctrine, aims, etc. [R.] Coleridge.

One who attitudinizes; a posture maker.

A practicing of attitudes; posture making.

Customary.

In an extraordinary manner or degree.

The quality of being extraordinary. [R.] Gov. of the Tongue.

Beyond or out of the common order or method; not usual, customary, regular, or ordinary; as, extraordinary evils; extraordinary remedies. Which dispose To something extraordinary my thoughts. Milton.

Wanting health; valetudinary. [R.]

nion; hence, deviating more or less widely from such standard; lax in doctrine; as, latitudinarian divines; latitudinarian theology. Latitudinarian sentiments upon religious subjects. Allibone.

A latitudinarian system or condition; freedom of opinion in matters pertaining to religious belief. Fierce sectarianism bred fierce latitudinarianism. De Quincey. He [Ammonius Saccas] plunged into the wildest latitudinarianism of opinion. J. S. Harford.

Resembling the sails of a windmill.

Multitudinous.

Of or pertaining to a fair, or to a market day. Nundinal letter, among the Romans, one of the first eight letters of the alphabet, which were repeated successively from the first to the last day of the year. One of these always expressed the market day, which returned every nine days (every eight days by our reckoning)…

or settled method; as a rule; commonly; usually; in most cases; as, a winter more than ordinarily severe. Those who ordinarily pride themselves not a little upon their penetration. I. Taylor.

According to established order; methodical; settled; regular. "The ordinary forms of law." Addison.

The state of being an ordinary. [R.] Fuller.

One addicted to uttering platitudes, or stale and insipid truisms. "A political platitudinarian." G. Eliot.

A plenist.