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Ordinarly, adv. Also: -lye, -lie; ordnarlye, -lie; ordinerly, -lie; ordain-, ordonerly, -lie; ornerly. [e.m.E. ordinarely (Geneva New Test.), otherwise only Sc.: cf. Ordinarily.]

1. In order or sequence, successively. c1590 Fowler II. 44/27.
The scrybes and Pharisies … lynealie discending from Aaron and Moyses, in quhais chyre ordinarly & successiuelie they sat
1679 Kirkcudbr. B. Rec. MS. 19 July.
Evrie fisher … sall evrie twa boatis of them keep ther poollis ordinarlie as they … goe from pooll to pooll at evrie tyde

2. According to rule or established practice, regularly; as a rule, normally, generally.(1) c1590 Fowler II. 50/13 (see Ordinar a. 1 (1)).(2) c1590 Fowler II. 122/17.
Be reason they ar ordnarlye euill and vnthankful
1596 Dalr. II. 286/6.
The gouernour with the Erle of Angus … quhom at that tyme chanced to keip the bordiris as fell thame ordinarlie
1602 Reg. Privy C. VI. 452.
To thair denner thay sal have ordinarlie quhyt breid [etc.]
1600-1610 Melvill 637. 1622-6 Bisset I. 240/15.
Letteres of foure formes, of foure sindrie … chargis ordinerlie used aganist the pairtie
1627 Reg. Privy C. 2 Ser. II. 117.
Admittit … for the spaice of his shirefship being or narlie t spaice of ane yeere
1630 Aberd. Council Lett. I. 335.
Ordinarlie it falles out that the Sabboth dayis fischeing is the best dayes fischeingis in all the weik
1641 Glasgow Univ. Mun. I. 283. c1650 Spalding I. 86. 1652 Lamont Diary 45. 1661 Black Sc. Witches 38.
And ordinarlie at ellewin hours in the day … the great fitt come all wayis vpoun him
1662 Sc. Hist. Rev. IX. 344.
Ordnarlie
1662 Highland P. III. 8.
That Annie Heyman at the Bay head on hir ordinarly to be their maiden and that she danced ordinarly in the midst of them
1678 Mackenzie Laws & C. i. xviii. 2. (1678) 186.
Seing it [bigamy] may be notour adultery and is ordinarly so
1685 Sinclair Satan's Inv. World 22 b.
That water-brook which is ordinarly called Liberton-burn
1691 Sc. Hist. Rev. XXXIX. 127.
Kettles … not very great, such as ordinarlie comes for the countrie
1699 Argyll Justic. Rec. I. 180. 1706 Rothesay Par. Rec. 198.(b) 1688 Rothesay B. Rec. 456.
Who is to have the solary ornerly allowed to the theasurer

b. In the normal or usual manner. c1650 Spalding I. 126.
Now the Bischop … misregairding his excommvnicatioun … preichis ordinarlie efter his accustomat maner

3. Commonly, frequently, habitually. c1590 Fowler II. 85/21.
This proceding is not strange bot very reasonable and ordinarlye experienced
c 1625 Misc. Spald. C. II. 15.
James Con in Knockkemill a railer and conuoyer ordinarlie of preistis
1642 S. Leith Rec. 39/2.
How far … blaspheming of the holie name of God had spread and ordainerlie practized
1646 Moray Synod 102.
Mr. Johne Gordon, ane excommunicat persone, frequents ordinarlie the bounds of the presbyterie of Aberlour
1649 Cupar Presb. 149. 1654 St. A. Presb. 67.
Considdering that hirds doe ordinarlie absent themselves fron [public worship]
1683 Coll. Aberd. & B. 104. 1684 Dundee B. Laws 451.
Thes sins being too ordonerly comitet on His day
1678–88 Soc. Ant. XXVII. 481.
They ordinarlie make use of the shell for keeping their snuff
1691 Cramond Kirk S. III. 5 Feb.
The said John was frequently drunke and ordinarly abused severall persons behind thair backe

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