Ordinary may refer to:
- Ordinary (heraldry), a simple geometrical figure on displayed on a shield
- Ordinary (lecture), a type of lecture given in universities of the Middle Ages
- Ordinary (liturgy), a set of texts in Roman Catholic and other Western Christian liturgies that are generally invariable
- Ordinary (officer), an officer of a church or civic authority who by reason of office has ordinary power to execute laws
- "Ordinary" (Wayne Brady song) (2008)
- "Ordinary" (Train song) (2004)
- Ordinary (film), a Malayalam-language film
Famous quotes containing the word ordinary:
“The Fashionable World is grown free and easie; our Manners sit more loose upon us: Nothing is so modish as an agreeable Negligence. In a word, Good Breeding shows it self most, where to an ordinary Eye it appears the least.”
—Joseph Addison (1672–1719)
“But alas! I never could keep a promise. I do not blame myself for this weakness, because the fault must lie in my physical organization. It is likely that such a very liberal amount of space was given to the organ which enables me to make promises, that the organ which should enable me to keep them was crowded out. But I grieve not. I like no half-way things. I had rather have one faculty nobly developed than two faculties of mere ordinary capacity.”
—Mark Twain [Samuel Langhorne Clemens] (1835–1910)
“The Anglican Church is marked by the grace and good sense of its forms, by the manly grace of its clergy. The gospel it preaches is, “By taste are ye saved.” ... It is not in ordinary a persecuting church; it is not inquisitorial, not even inquisitive, is perfectly well bred and can shut its eyes on all proper occasions. If you let it alone, it will let you alone. But its instinct is hostile to all change in politics, literature, or social arts.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)