extraördinary

comparative more extraördinary · superlative most extraördinary

1. rareRare spelling of extraordinary.

   The removal of a pair of, of extraördinary size; apparently the largest on record, 287

   1914, The Pennsylvania Medical Journal, volume 17, page 1005, column 3

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   This Dipthong is parted in coaction, coägulate. Ahinöam. Böanerges. Gilböah. Jeroböam, Jöab. Möab. Rehoböam. / To which add extraördinary, Pharaöh.

   [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

   Sam. Be of good courage! I begin to feel / Some rousing notions in me which dispose / To something extraördinary my thoughts.

   1671, John Milton, Paradise Regained, page 406; republished as The Poetical Works of John Milton, London: T. Nelson and Sons, […], 1864, “Samson Agonistes”

   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.

   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

   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.

   1906, Pure Products, volume 2, page 421

   […]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.

   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