Ordinary vs. Special — What's the Difference?

With no special or distinctive features; normal

Surpassing what is common or usual; exceptional

(especially of a judge or bishop) exercising authority by virtue of office and not by deputation.

Distinct among others of a kind

What is commonplace or standard

Primary

A judge who exercises authority by virtue of office and not by deputation.

Peculiar to a specific person or thing; particular

A member of the clergy, such as an archbishop in a province or a bishop in a diocese, with immediate jurisdiction.

Having a limited or specific function, application, or scope

Those parts of a Roman Catholic service, especially the Mass, which do not vary from day to day.

Arranged for a particular occasion or purpose

Any of the simplest principal charges used in coats of arms (especially chief, pale, bend, fess, bar, chevron, cross, saltire).

Regarded with particular affection and admiration

Short for ordinary share

Additional; extra

A meal provided at a fixed time and price at an inn.

Something arranged, issued, or appropriated to a particular service or occasion

A penny-farthing bicycle.

A featured attraction, such as a reduced price

Commonly encountered; usual

A single television production that features a specific work, a given topic, or a particular performer.

Having no special ability, quality, or purpose

Distinguished by a unique or unusual quality.

Not particularly good; not better than average

Of particular personal interest or value; dear; beloved.

(Law) Having direct authority to decide a case, rather than being delegated that power, as a judge.

(euphemistic) Of or related to disabilities, especially learning or intellectual disabilities.

(Mathematics) Designating a differential equation containing no more than one independent variable.

Constituting or relating to a species.

The usual or normal condition or course of events

Chief in excellence.

(Law) A judge with direct authority as opposed to delegated authority to decide a case.

(military) Of or related to unconventional warfare.

The parts of the Mass that remain unchanged from day to day.

A reduction in consumer cost (usually for a limited time) for items or services rendered.

A division of the Roman Breviary containing the unchangeable parts of the office other than the Psalms.

One of a rotation of meals systematically offered for a lower price at a restaurant.

A cleric, such as the residential bishop of a diocese, with ordinary jurisdiction over a specified territory.

(broadcasting) Unusual or exceptional episode of a series.

(Heraldry) One of the simplest and commonest charges, such as the bend and the cross.

A special constable.

A complete meal provided at a fixed price.

Anything that is not according to normal practice, plan, or schedule, as an unscheduled run of transportation that is normally scheduled.

A tavern or inn providing such a meal.

Any unlicensed medicine produced or obtained for a specific individual patient.

A person with authority; authority, ordinance.

(journalism) A correspondent; a journalist sent to the scene of an event to report back.

A person having immediate jurisdiction in a given case of ecclesiastical law, such as the bishop within a diocese.

(journalism) A dispatch sent back by a special correspondent.

(obsolete) A courier; someone delivering mail or post.

(theater) A light that illuminates a specific person or thing on the stage.

(law) A judge with the authority to deal with cases himself or herself rather than by delegation.

(law) A person appointed specifically to examine a single event or issue.

The chaplain of Newgate prison, who prepared condemned prisoners for death.

(nursing) To supervise a patient one-on-one.

Something ordinary or regular.

Of or pertaining to a species; constituting a species or sort.

(obsolete) Customary fare, one's regular daily allowance of food; hence a regular portion or allowance.

Particular; peculiar; different from others; extraordinary; uncommon.

A meal provided for a set price at an eating establishment.

Appropriate; designed for a particular purpose, occasion, or person; as, a special act of Parliament or of Congress; a special sermon.

A place where such meals are served; a public tavern, inn.

Limited in range; confined to a definite field of action, investigation, or discussion; as, a special dictionary of commercial terms; a special branch of study.

(heraldry) One of the standard geometric designs placed across the center of a coat of arms, such as a pale or fess.

Chief in excellence.

An ordinary person or thing; something commonplace.

A particular.

The usual course of things; normal condition or health; a standard way of behaviour or action.

One appointed for a special service or occasion.

A penny farthing bicycle.

A special offering (usually temporary and at a reduced price) that is featured in advertising;

(Christianity) A part of the Christian liturgy that is reasonably constant without regard to the date on which the service is performed.

A dish or meal given prominence in e.g. a restaurant

A book setting out ordinary or regular conduct.

A television production that features a particular person or work or topic;

(obsolete) A devotional manual; a book setting our rules for proper conduct.

Unique or specific to a person or thing or category;

(Christianity) A rule, or book of rules, prescribing the order of service, especially of Mass.

For a special service or occasion;

Having regular jurisdiction; now only used in certain phrases.

Surpassing what is common or usual or expected;

Being part of the natural order of things; normal, customary, routine.

Adapted to or reserved for a particular purpose;

Having no special characteristics or function; everyday, common, mundane; often deprecatory.

Having a specific function or scope;

Bad or undesirable.

First and most important;

According to established order; methodical; settled; regular.

Added to a regular schedule;

Common; customary; usual.

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.

An officer who has original jurisdiction in his own right, and not by deputation.

The mass; the common run.

That which is so common, or continued, as to be considered a settled establishment or institution.

Anything which is in ordinary or common use.

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.

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.

A judge of a probate court

The expected or commonplace condition or situation;

A clergyman appointed to prepare condemned prisoners for death

An early bicycle with a very large front wheel and small back wheel

(heraldry) any of several conventional figures used on shields

Not exceptional in any way especially in quality or ability or size or degree;

Lacking special distinction, rank, or status; commonly encountered;