extraördinary

See also: extraordinary and extra-ordinary

English

Adjective

extraördinary (comparative more extraördinary, superlative most extraördinary)

1. Rare spelling of extraordinary.
   • [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:

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

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

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

   • 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 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.

   • 1906, Pure Products, volume 2, page 421:

     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.

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

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

   • 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:

     […] 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.

   • 1965, Journal of the West, page 27:

     In 1877 Jackson’s extraördinary organizational bent drove him north to Alaska where he discovered a geographic theater that fully matched his humanitarian drive.

   • 1998 August 28, Icono Clast, “Nevada: Speed record Site”, in rec.travel.usa-canada (Usenet):

     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.

   • 2007 June 18, Icono Clast, “Re: Lakeside Swing Sunday, 6/17/2007, Oakland, CA - with Raul Ante!”, in ba.dance (Usenet):

     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.