1547. Edw. VI., Jrnl., in Lit. Rem. (Roxb.), II. 213. Order was taken for al his servauntes … and the ordinary and unordinary were appointed.
1574. Brieff Disc. Troub. Franckford, 79. They made cauillation at the manner off doinge off things as an vnordinary manner.
1610. Healey, St. Aug. Citie of God, XVII. xviii. 646. A proper phrase to the Greeke tongue, but vnordinary in the Latine.
1690. Locke, Hum. Und., III. xi. § 20. I do not know how they can be excused from Murther, who kill monstrous Births (as we call them) because of an unordinary shape.
1730. T. Boston, Mem., App. 45. A man of unordinary application to business.
1909. A. Blackwood, Jimbo, i. 15. She brought with her a kind disposition, a supreme ignorance of unordinary children, a large store of self-confidence—and a corded yellow tin box.
