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Definition :

Ordinary, a judge who has authority to take cog-nizance of causes in his own right, and not by deputation or delegation, Civ. Law. See NOTARY.

By the Common Law, one who has exempt and immediate jurisdiction in causes ecclesiastical.

Also, a bishop: and an archbishop is the ordinary of the whole province, to visit and receive appeals from inferior jurisdictions. Also, a commissary or official of a bishop or other ecclesiastical judge having judicial power; an archdeacon; officer of the royal household.