extraordinate

English

Adjective

extraordinate

  1. (nonstandard) Synonym of extraordinary
    • 1836, “Minutes of the conference on December 22, 1836”, in Joseph Smith's Kirtland: Eyewitness Accounts‎[1], Salt Lake City, Utah: Deseret Book Company, sourced from Joseph Smith Jr., History of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, 2nd ed. rev., 7 vols. (Salt Lake City: Deseret News, 1960), 2:468-69., published 1996, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 15:
      Whereas the Church in this place being poor from the beginning, having had to pay an extraordinate price for their lands, provisions, etc; and having a serious burthen imposed upon them by comers and goers, from most parts of the world, and in assisting traveling Elders and [their] families, while they themselves have been laboring in the vineyard of the Lord, to preach the Gospel; and also having suffered great loss in endeavoring to benefit Zion, it has ... become a serious matter....
    • 1972, Bleecker Marquette, “The Cincinnati Story - Housing and Other Things”, in Health, Housing and Other Things, Cincinnati, Ohio, →OCLC, pages 58–59:
      Ours was therefore the first city in the U.S. to make a plan official. It was a marked achievement. The man responsible for it was Alfred Bettman, a dedicated worker and man of extraordinate ability.
    • 1994, Stanley H. Cath, “Some Autobiographical Notes By a Psychogeriatrician in "That Time of Year": The Role of Devalued Fathers and Adopted Great Parents”, in How Psychiatrists Look at Aging, volume 2, International Universities Press, Inc., →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 220:
      I melded my mental representations of these extraordinate imagoes with the ordinate hard working teachers whose knowledge of the world and how it worked fascinated me.
    • 2014, Tad Williams, “A Stark and Wormy Knight”, in The Very Best of Tad Williams‎[2], 1st edition (Fantasy), San Francisco: Tachyon Publications, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 241:
      "Sir Libogran the Undeflectable stared at what must clearful have been a somewhat extraordinate sight. ‘Highness,’ quoth he,‘I cannot help feeling that someone here is not being entirely honest with me.’
    • For more quotations using this term, see Citations:extraordinate.

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