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Ordinary \Or"di*na*ry\, n.; pl. {Ordinaries} (-r[i^]z).
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.
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2. The mass; the common run. [Obs.]
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I see no more in you than in the ordinary
Of nature's salework. --Shak.
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3. That which is so common, or continued, as to be considered
a settled establishment or institution. [R.]
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Spain had no other wars save those which were grown
into an ordinary. --Bacon.
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4. Anything which is in ordinary or common use.
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Water buckets, wagons, cart wheels, plow socks, and
other ordinaries. --Sir W.
Scott.
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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'h[^o]te; hence, also, the meal furnished at such a
dining room. --Shak.
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All the odd words they have picked up in a
coffeehouse, or a gaming ordinary, are produced as
flowers of style. --Swift.
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He exacted a tribute for licenses to hawkers and
peddlers and to ordinaries. --Bancroft.
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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}.
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{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}.
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Pale \Pale\, v. t.
To make pale; to diminish the brightness of.
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The glowworm shows the matin to be near,
And 'gins to pale his uneffectual fire. --Shak.
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Pale \Pale\, n. [F. pal, fr. L. palus: cf. D. paal. See {Pole} a
stake, and 1st {Pallet}.]
1. A pointed stake or slat, either driven into the ground, or
fastened to a rail at the top and bottom, for fencing or
inclosing; a picket.
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Deer creep through when a pale tumbles down.
--Mortimer.
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2. That which incloses or fences in; a boundary; a limit; a
fence; a palisade. "Within one pale or hedge." --Robynson
(More's Utopia).
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3. A space or field having bounds or limits; a limited region
or place; an inclosure; -- often used figuratively. "To
walk the studious cloister's pale." --Milton. "Out of the
pale of civilization." --Macaulay.
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4. Hence: A region within specified bounds, whether or not
enclosed or demarcated.
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5. A stripe or band, as on a garment. --Chaucer.
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6. (Her.) One of the greater ordinaries, being a broad
perpendicular stripe in an escutcheon, equally distant
from the two edges, and occupying one third of it.
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7. A cheese scoop. --Simmonds.
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8. (Shipbuilding) A shore for bracing a timber before it is
fastened.
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{English pale}, {Irish pale} (Hist.), the limits or territory
in Eastern Ireland within which alone the English
conquerors of Ireland held dominion for a long period
after their invasion of the country by Henry II in 1172.
See note, below.

{beyond the pale} outside the limits of what is allowed or
proper; also, outside the limits within which one is
protected. --Spencer.
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Note: The English Pale. That part of Ireland in which English
law was acknowledged, and within which the dominion of
the English was restricted, for some centuries after
the conquests of Henry II. John distributed the part of
Ireland then subject to England into 12 counties
palatine, and this region became subsequently known as
the Pale, but the limits varied at different times.
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Pale \Pale\ (p[=a]l), a. [Compar. {Paler} (p[=a]l"[~e]r);
superl. {Palest}.] [F. p[^a]le, fr. p[^a]lir to turn pale, L.
pallere to be or look pale. Cf. {Appall}, {Fallow}, {pall},
v. i., {Pallid}.]
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1. Wanting in color; not ruddy; dusky white; pallid; wan; as,
a pale face; a pale red; a pale blue. "Pale as a forpined
ghost." --Chaucer.
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Speechless he stood and pale. --Milton.
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They are not of complexion red or pale. --T.
Randolph.
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2. Not bright or brilliant; of a faint luster or hue; dim;
as, the pale light of the moon.
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The night, methinks, is but the daylight sick;
It looks a little paler. --Shak.
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Note: Pale is often used in the formation of self-explaining
compounds; as, pale-colored, pale-eyed, pale-faced,
pale-looking, etc.
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Pale \Pale\, n.
Paleness; pallor. [R.] --Shak.
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Pale \Pale\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. {Paled} (p[=a]ld); p. pr. & vb.
n. {Paling}.]
To turn pale; to lose color or luster. --Whittier.
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Apt to pale at a trodden worm. --Mrs.
Browning.
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Pale \Pale\, v. t.
To inclose with pales, or as with pales; to encircle; to
encompass; to fence off.
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[Your isle, which stands] ribbed and paled in
With rocks unscalable and roaring waters. --Shak.
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