extraördinary
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more extraördinary
form: most extraördinary
Senses: examples: text: This Dipthong is parted in coaction, coägulate. Ahinöam. Böanerges. Gilböah. Jeroböam, Jöab. Möab. Rehoböam. / To which add extraördinary, Pharaöh.
ref: [1668, Owen Price, English Orthography, quoted in R. C. Alston, editor, English Linguistics, 1500—1800 (A Collection of Facsimile Reprints), 1972, The Scolar Press, →ISBN, page 35:
text: Sam. Be of good courage! I begin to feel / Some rousing notions in me which dispose / To something extraördinary my thoughts.
ref: 1671, John Milton, Paradise Regained, page 406; republished as The Poetical Works of John Milton, London: T. Nelson and Sons, […], 1864, “Samson Agonistes”:
text: It occaſionally aſſumes other ſounds; as that. / Of a long, in gauge. / a ſhort, in the common pronunciation of ſauſage. / with a diſtinct pronunciation of a, o, and of every ſyllable. / ⸺“ ſeen, but with ſuch eyes, / “As ſick, and blunted with community, / “Afford no extraördinary gaze. / Part 1ſt of Hen. IV. p. 364.
ref: a. 1800, [Facsimile], quoted in R. C. Alston, editor, English Linguistics, 1500—1800 (A Collection of Facsimile Reprints), 1968, Menston, England: The Scolar Press, page 51:
text: It is true that a well-fed body can be made to perform an extraördinary amount of work by the ingestion of moderate quantities of spirits; for the stimulated nerves then react upon organs highly charged with energy.
ref: 1906, Pure Products, volume 2, page 421:
text: The removal of a pair of, of extraördinary size; apparently the largest on record, 287
ref: 1914, The Pennsylvania Medical Journal, volume 17, page 1005, column 3:
text: […]on illustrations in color as well as half-tones in black and white, both of which will occupy a special section of 40 pages (5 or 10 signatures of 8 or 4 pages respectively) on coated paper, 8 consecutive pages (4 leaves) of which requiring a more or less translucent stock and more or less transparent inks, an extraördinary effect being obtained by a “show-through” when the leaf is held to the light.
ref: 1960, George Frederick Gundelfinger, GFG—Theatric’ly: An Autobiograhical Review of Freedley and Reeves’ A History of the Theatre, New York: Pageant Press, page 12:
text: In 1877 Jackson’s extraördinary organizational bent drove him north to Alaska where he discovered a geographic theater that fully matched his humanitarian drive.
ref: 1965, Journal of the West, page 27:
text: The evidence was in the whine of the engine, the tach- and speed-ometers' needles and the absolute intellectual knowledge that this is quite extraördinary.
ref: 1998 August 28, Icono Clast, “Nevada: Speed record Site”, in rec.travel.usa-canada (Usenet):
text: Rudy is proud that it's a "dance band" and it certainly is! Every number was danceable and the Elks Club floor is an excellent and fast one. But I danced less than usual because I just had to sit to listen to the extraördinary performance.
ref: 2007 June 18, Icono Clast, “Re: Lakeside Swing Sunday, 6/17/2007, Oakland, CA - with Raul Ante!”, in ba.dance (Usenet):
text: ‘[…] I’ll be needing to make a note of your new telephone number.’ […] / ‘There’s no need, Granny. It’s still the same number. I took it with me.’ / ‘How extraördinary.’ She gave the word six full syllables in the manner of her class and generation, where younger and more slapdash speakers would have abridged it – extrordinry! – to a shrunken four.
ref: 2023, Adam Mars-Jones, “To fluster an opal”, in Caret, London: Faber & Faber, →ISBN:
glosses: Rare spelling of extraordinary.