Extraordinary vs Transcursion - What's the difference?
extraordinary | transcursion |
Not ordinary; exceptional; unusual;
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(obsolete) A rambling; passage beyond certain limits; extraordinary deviation.
* 1662 , , Book II, A Collection of Several Philosophical Writings of Dr. Henry More, p. 84:
* Francis Bacon
As an adjective extraordinary
is not ordinary; exceptional; unusual.As a noun transcursion is
a rambling; passage beyond certain limits; extraordinary deviation.extraordinary
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Adjective
(en adjective)2011 Rugby World Cup final: New Zealand 8-7 France, passage=Tony Woodcock's early try and a penalty from fourth-choice fly-half Stephen Donald were enough to see the All Blacks home in an extraordinary match that defied all pre-match predictions.}}
The new masters and commanders, passage=From the ground, Colombo’s port does not look like much.
Usage notes
* Can be said of all kinds of objects including people, events, things, and terms. * The pronunciation "extrordinary" is often preferred so as to avoid confusion with "extra ordinary", which would be defined as "more ordinary than usual".Synonyms
*Antonyms
* everyday, normal, ordinary, regular, usualDerived terms
* extraordinary optical transmission * extraordinary professor * extraordinary renditiontranscursion
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Noun
(en noun)- "And if Man'' were out of the world, who were then left to ''view'' the face of ''Heaven'', to ''wonder'' at the transcursion of ''Comets "
- In a living creature, though never so great, the sense and the affects of any one part of the body instantly make a transcursion through the whole.