Ordinary

Use in the book

The professional examples give ordinary a positive, definite function. Foreest’s former role as the Carthusians’ Physitian ordinary supports his claimed experience of their illnesses; it does not validate the dietary explanation as modern medicine. The ordinary Preacher at Alkmaar is already called grave and learned. His regular public activity makes the reported withdrawal from the pulpit especially striking. A sudden bowel illness forces him into a ditch, where parishioners unexpectedly see him; shame then leads to withdrawal and wasting. The margin adds his fear of an accusation of a base offence, not proof of guilt. Flux and lask, lask, and Shame, pudor · pudorem · local use 1, explain those other components of the case. Foreest’s precise case remains uncollated.

Customary recreations occupy the mind during solitary winter hours. The catalogue ranges across games, music, performance, wordplay and storytelling, identifying familiar activities rather than declaring them unexceptional in merit. The details of some games remain unresolved. Burton later distinguishes their refreshing purpose from the habit of gambling that perverts it. Entertain explains this purpose of passing time and occupying company: a customary activity can be useful without being harmless in every manner of use.

News links two different uses in one passage. An ordinary is the public dining-house, set beside a bakery and barber’s shop as a familiar gathering place. Ordinary occurrents are everyday events, reports of which supposedly comfort Gonzalo during confinement. The place noun is not an adjective judging the meal, and the events need not be dull. Burton attributes the story to Giovio; the exact account and the priority of the news remain to be checked. The source supports a dining-house, not a reconstructed fixed price or detailed meal service.

Commonness does not imply universality or worthlessness. Burton calls the signs in his symptom survey ordinary because they occur among writers, then expressly refuses to put them all into one person: different people have different signs, and at different times. In consolation, an objector dismisses ordinary speeches as familiar words with little force. Burton replies that they must do some good and bring a little relief, even when repeated. Comfort and consolation, Comfort and consolation · consolations, already follows that objection and reply. In the love narrative, by contrast, Chaerea’s rejection of ordinary beauties is the captivated character’s preference, not Burton’s neutral classification.

Ordinary means changes argumentative force with the kind of illness under discussion. In the earlier divine-cause account, Paracelsus’s spiritual-only cure claim is followed by Ordinary means in such cases will not avail. Such cases limits the statement, and the continuation makes the condition explicit: If he strike us, God alone must help. Divine, divine · a divine supernatural cause, explains the neighbouring, qualified interpretation of Hippocrates. Later ordinary means expresses the practical side of Burton’s account of treatment. He has just said to begin with prayer and then use medicine, both together, not one without the other. To pray alone and reject ordinary means is therefore the error illustrated by the stalled cart: the appeal does not replace action. The later definition of nature as God’s ordinary power gives regularity a theological application. Burton attributes that formulation to Scaliger and the alternative God’s order to Calvin, using both against people who acknowledge nature but deny God. The earlier restriction and later conjunction of prayer with medicine are differently bounded historical claims, not interchangeable universal rules. The precise Scaliger and Calvin passages remain uncollated. Nature explains the larger theological distinction; Happiness and fortune, Fortune, treats the adjacent account of fortune.

The ordinary is threefold introduces Burton’s chosen treatment arrangement after competing schemes. The noun method is understood, and the division comprises regulation of daily life, drugs and surgery. Burton says he intends to follow it and that most prescribe it, not that every authority agrees. Diet and regimen explains the broad regimen category, while Method and order treats the arrangement vocabulary. Ordinary Gloss has a different institutional force: it identifies the commentary tradition cited for Joseph’s beauty, rather than dismissing a gloss as commonplace.

Ordinarily returns the family to personal habit. Burton says he wrote with as little deliberation as he ordinarily speaks. The adverb qualifies his usual speaking, within a comparison about composition. That self-description accompanies an elaborate denial of verbal ornament, so it cannot establish that the book was literally unplanned or unrevised. Affection, affectation, explains the neighbouring affectation claim.

Related entries

Entertain, for reception, company and recreation; Shame and Flux and lask, for the minister’s case; Comfort and consolation, for familiar counsel; Diet and regimen, for the treatment division. Method and order and Nature explain the related arrangement and theological vocabulary.

Places to read

1. Democritus Junior to the Reader · paragraphs 24–26ordinarily and the professed manner of writing.
2. Section 2 Member 1 Subsection 1 Causes of Melancholy God as a Cause · paragraphs 15–19ordinary means denied efficacy in the specified divine-cause case.
3. Subsection 1 Bad Diet as a Cause. Substance. The Quality of Foods · paragraphs 5–7Foreest as the regular physician.
4. Subsection 6. Shame and Disgrace as Causes · paragraphs 33–35; Subsection 6. Shame and Disgrace as Causes · paragraph 34the regular preacher’s withdrawal; the supplied page and scan qualification are essential.
5. Subsection 4 Symptoms Arising From Education, Custom, Duration, Our Circumstances, Mingled With Other Diseases, Occurring in Fits, From Inclination, and So On · paragraphs 28–30ordinary signs and the explicit rejection of a universal symptom portrait.
6. Member 2. Lawful Cures, First From God · paragraphs 2–5ordinary means alongside prayer.
7. Subsection 3. Concerning Medicine · paragraphs 7–9; Section 2. Member 1. Subsection 1. Diet Corrected in the Choice of Food · paragraphs 10–11the ordinary as the chosen usual method.
8. Member 4 Exercise of Body and Mind Regulated · paragraphs 40–48; Member 4 Exercise of Body and Mind Regulated · paragraph 41; Member 4 Exercise of Body and Mind Regulated · paragraph 47; Member 4 Exercise of Body and Mind Regulated · paragraphs 3–7customary winter recreations, the dining-house and everyday news, followed by the account of abused recreation.
9. Section 3 Member 1. Subsection 1 A Digression on Consolation, Containing Remedies for Every Kind of Discontent · paragraphs 45–47familiar consolation, the objection and Burton’s reply.
10. Member 2. Subsection 2. Other Causes of Love Melancholy: Sight; Beauty of the Face, Eyes and Other Parts; and How It Pierces Us · paragraphs 52–54the Ordinary Gloss as an authority.
11. Member 2. Subsection 2. Other Causes of Love Melancholy: Sight; Beauty of the Face, Eyes and Other Parts; and How It Pierces Us · paragraphs 13–15a lover’s dismissal of ordinary beauties, with Latin and English restatements kept separate.
12. Member 2 Subsection 1 Religious Melancholy From Deficiency: Those Affected—Epicures, Atheists, Hypocrites, the Worldly and Complacent, Carnalists, All Impious People, Impenitent Sinners, and Others · paragraphs 15–17God’s ordinary power in attributed definitions of nature.

In this edition

Ordinary Preacher becomes regular preacher; Physitian ordinary becomes regular physician. Regular states a role or accustomed service, not a judgment about the person’s ability. The ordinary recreations which we have in Winter becomes Our usual winter recreations. Ordinary supplies usual, while Winter supplies winter; the compressed rendering does not make winter a meaning of ordinary. Neither the minister nor the recreations is being called second-rate.

The ordinary becomes The usual method, supplying the noun understood from the preceding discussion. An ordinary becomes a public dining-house; ordinary occurrents becomes everyday events. The same spelling thus requires different constructions and referents. Ordinary Gloss receives title capitalization, while ordinary means, ordinary power and ordinarily remain recognizably the same words in their respective passages.

The modern column first translates Burton’s Latin cry with everyday beauties, then retains ordinary beauties in his separate expanded English paraphrase. The latter is the direct route for the original English phrase. Similarly, familiar arguments renders known perswasions, not ordinary speeches, which remains ordinary speeches. Close proximity does not make the two phrases interchangeable translations.

ordinary: regular role

Regular or customary in a professional role, without a judgment that the person is mediocre.

Grammar: Adjective before Preacher, and postpositive after Physitian.

Component sense: sometimes. Temporal component: at a former time in this account of Foreest’s regular role, not intermittent or inferior performance..

Component access (sometimes): Temporal component: at a former time in this account of Foreest’s regular role, not intermittent or inferior performance.

Component access (formerly): Temporal component: at a former time in this account of Foreest’s regular role, not intermittent or inferior performance.

Original text: “being sometimes their Physitian ordinary at Delph in Holland”. In the modern column: “having formerly been their regular physician at Delft in Holland”. Foreest’s former professional role supports his report of the Carthusians’ illnesses. Burton reports Foreest’s experience and a historical dietary claim. Ordinary describes the role, not the truth of the claim. Physitian ordinary becomes regular physician with the adjective moved before the noun; sometimes becomes formerly, not occasional incompetence.

Original text: “an ordinary Preacher at Alcmar in Holland”. In the modern column: “a regular preacher at Alkmaar in Holland”. The minister’s habitual public role contrasts with his subsequent withdrawal. Foreest’s reported case; the body says shame after exposure during illness, while the margin adds feared accusation. Neither proves an offence; exact case uncollated. Ordinary gives regular; the place-name modernization is separate.

ordinary: usual or commonplace

Usual, customary, familiar or everyday; approval, contempt and asserted frequency depend on the surrounding claim.

Grammar: Attributive adjective with plural signs, recreations, occurrences, speeches and beauties.

Component sense: occurrents. Plural noun component: occurrences or events. Everyday is supplied by the separate adjective ordinary..

Component sense: known perswasions. Coordinated phrase: familiar arguments renders known perswasions, not the preceding ordinary speeches..

Component sense: Winter. Seasonal noun component of the full winter-recreation construction; winter does not come from the adjective ordinary..

Component sense: signes. Spelling component: signs, within the familiar symptom-list construction. The surrounding denial of universality remains controlling..

Component access (occurrents): Plural noun component: occurrences or events. Everyday is supplied by the separate adjective ordinary.

Component access (events): Plural noun component: occurrences or events. Everyday is supplied by the separate adjective ordinary.

Component access (known perswasions): Coordinated phrase: familiar arguments renders known perswasions, not the preceding ordinary speeches.

Component access (familiar arguments): Coordinated phrase: familiar arguments renders known perswasions, not the preceding ordinary speeches.

Component access (Winter): Seasonal noun component of the full winter-recreation construction; winter does not come from the adjective ordinary.

Component access (winter): Seasonal noun component of the full winter-recreation construction; winter does not come from the adjective ordinary.

Component access (signes): Spelling component: signs, within the familiar symptom-list construction. The surrounding denial of universality remains controlling.

Component access (signs): Spelling component: signs, within the familiar symptom-list construction. The surrounding denial of universality remains controlling.

Original text: “such ordinary signes, which occur amongst writers”. In the modern column: “the ordinary signs that occur among writers”. The signs are familiar from writers, not present in every sufferer. Burton expressly denies that all the signs occur in one person: some belong to one, some another, and appear at different times. Ordinary is retained; signes becomes signs. Familiarity is within the literature described.

Original text: “The ordinary recreations which we have in Winter”. In the modern column: “Our usual winter recreations”. The catalogue names customary winter occupations that keep minds busy in solitary hours. The catalogue is not a verdict that the games lack merit. Later discussion distinguishes innocent refreshment from abused gambling; exact rules and small trunks remain unresolved. Ordinary supplies usual; Winter supplies winter. The modern phrase compresses which we have into Our; winter is not part of ordinary’s lexical meaning.

Original text: “those ordinary occurrents”. In the modern column: “everyday events”. News of everyday happenings is the reported solace of the confined Gonzalo. Saith Jovius attributes the account; the confinement, precise passage and cum primis priority remain uncollated. Ordinary supplies everyday; occurrents supplies events.

Original text: “ordinary speeches, and known perswasions”. In the modern column: “ordinary speeches, and familiar arguments”. Familiar words are dismissed by an objector before Burton defends their modest benefit. Most men will here except voices the objection; Yet sure I think they cannot choose but asserts some good, comfort and ease a little. Small relief is not no relief or mere possibility. Ordinary speeches is retained; familiar arguments renders the separate known perswasions.

Original text: “I am weary of these ordinary beauties, away with them”. In the modern column: “I am tired of these ordinary beauties; away with them”. The captivated Chaerea dismisses other, familiar beauties in favour of one woman. Burton’s expanded English follows a Terentian cry and expresses a character’s preference, not an objective classification of beauty. The English ordinary beauties is retained in the English paraphrase. Earlier everyday beauties in the modern column translates Burton’s separate Latin quotation, not these same English words.

ordinary means; ordinary power

The usual available means of action, or the regular operation ascribed to divine power, rather than an exceptional intervention.

Grammar: Attributive adjective in plural ordinary meanes and singular possessive Gods ordinary power.

Original text: “Ordinary means in such cases will not avail”. In the modern column: “Ordinary means will do no good in such cases”. Usual means are denied efficacy for the spiritual diseases under discussion, not for every illness. Paracelsus is of opinion introduces the spiritual-only claim. The continuation says If he strike us and reserves help to God; this must not erase the later prayer-plus-medicine counsel. Ordinary means is retained; in such cases preserves the restriction, and will not avail becomes will do no good.

Original text: “To pray alone, and reject ordinary meanes”. In the modern column: “To pray alone and reject ordinary means”. Burton rejects prayer that refuses the practical means appointed by God. Preceding counsel says first prayer and then medicine, both together, not one without the other; the fable does not authorize abandoning prayer or guarantee a cure. Ordinary is retained; meanes becomes means. Alone and reject define the target of the criticism.

Original text: “Nature signifies Gods ordinary power”. In the modern column: “nature signifies God’s ordinary power”. The definition identifies nature with God’s regular action. As Scaliger defines marks attribution; as Calvin writes introduces a separate formulation. Burton uses them against denial of God. The precise cited passages remain uncollated. Ordinary power is retained; the following alternative definition of nature as God’s order clarifies the regularity.

the ordinary

The usual method or procedure, here the customary three-part scheme of treatment.

Grammar: Substantivized adjective after the, with method understood from the preceding discussion.

Component sense: ordinary. Substantivized adjectival component: usual or customary. Method is the noun supplied from context, not the lexical meaning of ordinary alone..

Component sense: threefold. Predicate construction expressing the division into three parts, not the meaning of the substantivized ordinary..

Component access (ordinary): Substantivized adjectival component: usual or customary. Method is the noun supplied from context, not the lexical meaning of ordinary alone.

Component access (usual): Substantivized adjectival component: usual or customary. Method is the noun supplied from context, not the lexical meaning of ordinary alone.

Component access (threefold): Predicate construction expressing the division into three parts, not the meaning of the substantivized ordinary.

Component access (has three parts): Predicate construction expressing the division into three parts, not the meaning of the substantivized ordinary.

Original text: “The ordinary is threefold, which I meane to follow”. In the modern column: “The usual method, which I intend to follow, has three parts”. Burton chooses a standard treatment arrangement after describing other systems. Which I meane to follow states Burton’s intended arrangement; most prescribe does not claim unanimity. The preceding rejection concerns indiscriminate cures, not this structure. The ordinary becomes The usual method: usual renders ordinary, while method supplies the noun understood from the discussion. Threefold becomes has three parts.

an ordinary

A public dining-house, a place for eating and meeting company.

Grammar: Singular count noun after an, governed by at; not the elliptical treatment method.

Original text: “as at an ordinary with us, bakehouse or barbers shop”. In the modern column: “Just as at a public dining-house, bakery, or barber’s shop among us”. The dining-house is one familiar place where company hears and exchanges news. The opening completes the previous comparison; the following Gonzalo anecdote is attributed to Giovio. The source does not establish a price or precise meal arrangement. An ordinary gives a public dining-house; bakery and barber’s shop belong to the other coordinated establishments.

ordinary Gloss

The standard medieval biblical commentary tradition cited as an authority.

Grammar: Adjectival element in a recognized title, ordinary Gloss; modern capitalization marks Ordinary Gloss.

Component sense: ordinary. Title component: standard or customary in ordinary Gloss / Ordinary Gloss; the adjective alone does not mean a biblical commentary..

Component access (ordinary): Title component: standard or customary in ordinary Gloss / Ordinary Gloss; the adjective alone does not mean a biblical commentary.

Component access (Ordinary): Title component: standard or customary in ordinary Gloss / Ordinary Gloss; the adjective alone does not mean a biblical commentary.

Component access (ordinary): Title component: standard or customary in ordinary Gloss / Ordinary Gloss; the adjective alone does not mean a biblical commentary.

Original text: “as the ordinary Gloss hath it”. In the modern column: “as the Ordinary Gloss puts it”. The named commentary is cited for the spectators drawn by Joseph’s beauty. As attributes the wording; the editor identifies the tradition but leaves Burton’s precise Joseph, Matilda and Morales references unchecked. Ordinary Gloss becomes Ordinary Gloss; capitalization makes the title visible, while hath it becomes puts it.

ordinarily

Usually or habitually, as part of a person’s customary practice.

Grammar: Adverb modifying speak within a comparison of deliberation.

Original text: “writ with as small deliberation as I do ordinarily speak”. In the modern column: “wrote with as little deliberation as I ordinarily speak”. Burton compares his alleged rapid composition with his habitual manner of speaking. First-person authorial self-presentation, not an independently verified history of composition; the ornate continuation complicates the professed plainness. Ordinarily is retained and modifies speak; as little deliberation carries the comparison with writing.