a. Lofty in doctrine, aims, etc. [ R. ] Coleridge. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. One who attitudinizes; a posture maker. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. A practicing of attitudes; posture making. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ LL. consuetudinarius. ] Customary. [ 1913 Webster ]

n.; pl. Consuetudinaries A manual or ritual of customary devotional exercises. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Ar. dīnār, from Gr. dhna`rion, fr. L. denarius. See Denier. ] 1. A petty money of accounts of Persia; 100 dinars consituted a rial. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. An ancient gold coin of the East, issued by various Islamic countries. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. the unit of currency of Yugoslavia. One dinar equals 100 paras. Abbreviated Din. [ PJC ]

n. See Diarchy. [ 1913 Webster ]

adv. In an extraordinary manner or degree. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. The quality of being extraordinary. [ R. ] Gov. of the Tongue. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ L. extraordinarius; extra on the outside + ordinarius: cf. F. extraordinaire. See Ordinary. ] 1. Beyond or out of the common order or method; not usual, customary, regular, or ordinary; as, extraordinary evils; extraordinary remedies. [ 1913 Webster ]

Which dispose
To something extraordinary my thoughts. Milton. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Exceeding the common degree, measure. or condition; hence, remarkable; uncommon; rare; wonderful; as, extraordinary talents or grandeur. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. Employed or sent upon an unusual or special service; as, an ambassador extraordinary. [ 1913 Webster ]

n.; pl. Extraordinaries That which is extraordinary; -- used especially in the plural; as, extraordinaries excepted, there is nothing to prevent success. [ 1913 Webster ]

Their extraordinary did consist especially in the matter of prayers and devotions. Jer. Taylor. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Wanting health; valetudinary. [ R. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ Cf. F. latitudinaire. ] 1. Not restrained; not confined by precise limits. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Indifferent to a strict application of any standard of belief or opinion; hence, deviating more or less widely from such standard; lax in doctrine; as, latitudinarian divines; latitudinarian theology. [ 1913 Webster ]

Latitudinarian sentiments upon religious subjects. Allibone. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. Lax in moral or religious principles. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. 1. One who is moderate in his notions, or not restrained by precise settled limits in opinion; one who indulges freedom in thinking. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. (Eng. Eccl. Hist.) A member of the Church of England, in the time of Charles II., who adopted more liberal notions in respect to the authority, government, and doctrines of the church than generally prevailed. [ 1913 Webster ]

They were called “men of latitude;” and upon this, men of narrow thoughts fastened upon them the name of latitudinarians. Bp. Burnet. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. (Theol.) One who departs in opinion from the strict principles of orthodoxy. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. A latitudinarian system or condition; freedom of opinion in matters pertaining to religious belief. [ 1913 Webster ]

Fierce sectarianism bred fierce latitudinarianism. De Quincey. [ 1913 Webster ]

He [ Ammonius Saccas ] plunged into the wildest latitudinarianism of opinion. J. S. Harford. [ 1913 Webster ]

{ } a. [ L. molendinarius, fr. molendinum a mill, fr. molere to grind. ] (Bot.) Resembling the sails of a windmill. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Multitudinous. [ 1913 Webster ]

{ } a. [ L. nundinalis, nundinarius, fr. nundinae the market day, the weekly market, prop., the ninth day, fr. nundinus belonging to nine days; novem nine + dies day: cf. F. nundinal. ] Of or pertaining to a fair, or to a market day. [ 1913 Webster ]

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). [ 1913 Webster ]

adv. According to established rules or settled method; as a rule; commonly; usually; in most cases; as, a winter more than ordinarily severe. [ 1913 Webster ]

Those who ordinarily pride themselves not a little upon their penetration. I. Taylor. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ L. ordinarius, fr. ordo, ordinis, order: cf. F. ordinaire. See Order. ] 1. According to established order; methodical; settled; regular. “The ordinary forms of law.” Addison. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Common; customary; usual. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

Method is not less requisite in ordinary conversation that in writing. Addison. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. Of common rank, quality, or ability; not distinguished by superior excellence or beauty; hence, not distinguished in any way; commonplace; inferior; of little merit; as, men of ordinary judgment; an ordinary book. [ 1913 Webster ]

An ordinary lad would have acquired little or no useful knowledge in such a way. Macaulay. [ 1913 Webster ]

Ordinary seaman (Naut.), one not expert or fully skilled, and hence ranking below an able seaman. [ 1913 Webster ]

Syn. -- Normal; common; usual; customary. See Normal. -- Ordinary, Common. A thing is common in which many persons share or partake; as, a common practice. A thing is ordinary when it is apt to come round in the regular common order or succession of events. [ 1913 Webster ]

n.; pl. Ordinaries 1. (Law) (a) (Roman Law) An officer who has original jurisdiction in his own right, and not by deputation. (b) (Eng. Law) One who has immediate jurisdiction in matters ecclesiastical; an ecclesiastical judge; also, a deputy of the bishop, or a clergyman appointed to perform divine service for condemned criminals and assist in preparing them for death. (c) (Am. Law) A judicial officer, having generally the powers of a judge of probate or a surrogate. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. The mass; the common run. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

I see no more in you than in the ordinary
Of nature's salework. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. That which is so common, or continued, as to be considered a settled establishment or institution. [ R. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

Spain had no other wars save those which were grown into an ordinary. Bacon. [ 1913 Webster ]

4. Anything which is in ordinary or common use. [ 1913 Webster ]

Water buckets, wagons, cart wheels, plow socks, and other ordinaries. Sir W. Scott. [ 1913 Webster ]

5. A dining room or eating house where a meal is prepared for all comers, at a fixed price for the meal, in distinction from one where each dish is separately charged; a table d'hôte; hence, also, the meal furnished at such a dining room. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

All the odd words they have picked up in a coffeehouse, or a gaming ordinary, are produced as flowers of style. Swift. [ 1913 Webster ]

He exacted a tribute for licenses to hawkers and peddlers and to ordinaries. Bancroft. [ 1913 Webster ]

6. (Her.) A charge or bearing of simple form, one of nine or ten which are in constant use. The bend, chevron, chief, cross, fesse, pale, and saltire are uniformly admitted as ordinaries. Some authorities include bar, bend sinister, pile, and others. See Subordinary. [ 1913 Webster ]

In ordinary. (a) In actual and constant service; statedly attending and serving; as, a physician or chaplain in ordinary. An ambassador in ordinary is one constantly resident at a foreign court. (b) (Naut.) Out of commission and laid up; -- said of a naval vessel. --
Ordinary of the Mass (R. C. Ch.), the part of the Mass which is the same every day; -- called also the canon of the Mass. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. The state of being an ordinary. [ R. ] Fuller. [ 1913 Webster ]

adj. unusual or striking.
Syn. -- remarkable, singular, some. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n. One addicted to uttering platitudes, or stale and insipid truisms. “A political platitudinarian.” G. Eliot. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. A plenist. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Having plenitude; full; complete; thorough. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Involving or expressing similitude. [ Obs. ] Coke. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. (Her.) One of several heraldic bearings somewhat less common than an ordinary. See Ordinary. [ 1913 Webster ]

☞ Different writers name different bearings as subordinaries, but the bar, bend, sinister, pile, inescutcheon bordure, gyron, and quarter, are always considered subordinaries by those who do not class them as ordinaries. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. (Zool.) Of or pertaining to the shell of a tortoise; resembling a tortoise shell; having the color or markings of a tortoise shell. [ 1913 Webster ]

See obnoxious.
See observable.
See observant.
See obstructive.
See obvious.
See official.
See officious.
See oppressive.
See ordinary.
See ordinate.
See original.
See ornamental.
See orthodox.
See ostentatious.
See pacifiable.
See pacific.
See painful.
See palatable.
See parallelable.
See pardonable.
See partable.
See participant.
See passionate.
See pastoral.
See pathetic.
See patriotic.
See peaceable.
See peaceful.
See pedantic.
See perceivable.
See perceptible.
See perilous.
See permanent.
See personable.
See perspirable.
See persuadable.
See persuasive.
See philanthropic.
See philosophic.
See philosophical.
See physical.
See picturesque.
See pierceable.
See pitiful.
See plain.
See plausible.
See plausive.
See pleadable.
See pleasurable.
See pliable.
See pliant.
See plumb.
See poetic.
See poetical.
See political.
See popular.
See populous.
See portable.
See potable.
See precarious.
See precise.
See pregnant.
See prejudicate.
See prelatical.
See premeditable.
See presentable.
See preservable.
See presumptuous.
See pretentious.
See pretty.
See prevalent.
See priestly.
See primitive.
See princely.
See procurable.
See producible.
See productive.
See professional.
See profitable.
See prolific.
See pronounceable.
See prophetic.
See propitious.
See proportionable.
See proportionate.
See prosperous.
See provable.
See punctilious.
See punctual.
See punishable.
See pure.
See qualifiable.
See quenchable.
See quiet.
See rational.
See readable.
See reasonable.
See recallable.
See reclaimable.
See recognizable.
See reconcilable.
See recoverable.
See recumbent.
See reformable.
See refusable.
See regardable.
See regardant.
See relative.
See relievable.
See reluctant.
See remarkable.
See remediable.
See rememberable.
See remorseful.
See removable.
See remunerative.
See repairable.
See repealable.
See repentant.
See reprovable.
See repugnant.
See requisite.
See requitable.
See resolvable.
See respectable.
See restful.
See retentive.
See returnable.
See revengeful.
See ridable.
See ridiculous.
See rightful.
See romantic.
See rough.
See royal.
See ruinable.
See ruly.
See sacrificial.
See safe.
See sage.
See sailable.
See salable.
See sane.
See sanguine.
See sanitary.
See satisfactory.
See satisfiable.
See saturable.
See savory.
See scalable.
See scaly.
See scholarly.
See scholastic.
See scientific.
See scornful.
See scriptural.
See sculptural.
See seaworthy.
See sectarian.
See secular.
See sedentary.
See selfish.
See sentient.
See sentimental.
See serviceable.
See severe.
See shamefaced.
See shamefast.
See shapely.
See shy.
See sick.
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See sightly.
See simple.
See sinewy.
See sizable.
See sleek.
See slumberous.
See sly.
See smooth.
See smotherable.
See smutty.
See sober.
See sociable.
See social.
See solemn.
See soliciutous.
See solvable.
See speakable.
See speedy.
See spiritual.
See spontaneous.
See sportful.
See sportsmanlike.
See statutable.
See steadfast.
See steady.
See stormy.
See stout.
See strong.
See subduable.
See subject.
See submissive.
See subordinate.
See substantial.
See successive.
See succorable.
See suggestive.
See suitable.
See sunny.
See superfluous.
See supple.
See sure.
See surpassable.
See susceptible.
See suspect.
See suspectable.
See suspicious.
See sustainable.
See sweet.
See syllogistical.
See symbolic.
See sympathetic.
See systematic.
See tamable.
See tame.
See teachable.
See technical.
See tellable.
See tenable.
See tender.
See terrestrial.
See terrific.
See thankful.
See theological.
See thinkable.
See thirsty.
See thorny.
See thoughtful.
See tidy.
See tillable.
See toothsome.
See touchable.
See traceable.
See tractable.
See tragic.
See tranquil.
See transferable.
See translatable.
See transmutable.
See transparent.
See transpassable.
See traversable.
See tremulous.
See trimphant.
See trustworthy.
See trusty.
See tumultous.
See tunable.
See uniform.
See usable.
See useful.
See vanquishable.
See variant.
See venerable.
See venomous.
See veracious.
See verdant.
See veritable.
See vigilant.
See vigorous.
See virtuous.
See vital.
See vitrifiable.
See vocal.
See voidable.
See voluptuous.
See voyageable.
See vulgar.
See walkable.
See warlike.
See watchful.
See watery.
See wealthy.
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See weary.
See welcome.
See wet.
See wholesome.
See wieldsome.
See willful.
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See workmanlike.
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See worshipful.
See wrathful.
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a. [ L. valetudinarius, from valetudo state of health, health, ill health, fr. valere to be strong or well: cf. F. valétudinaire. See Valiant. ] Of infirm health; seeking to recover health; sickly; weakly; infirm. [ 1913 Webster ]

My feeble health and valetudinarian stomach. Coleridge. [ 1913 Webster ]

The virtue which the world wants is a healthful virtue, not a valetudinarian virtue. Macaulay. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. A person of a weak or sickly constitution; one who is seeking to recover health. [ 1913 Webster ]

Valetudinarians must live where they can command and scold. Swift. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. The condition of a valetudinarian; a state of feeble health; infirmity. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Infirm; sickly; valetudinarian. -- Val`e*tu"di*na*ri*ness, n. [1913 Webster]

It renders the habit of society dangerously valetudinary. Burke. [1913 Webster]

n. A valetudinarian. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Subject to vicissitudes. Donne. [ 1913 Webster ]