academic vs ordinary

academic

adj
  • Conforming to set rules and traditions; conventional; formalistic. 

  • Having a love of or aptitude for learning. 

  • Belonging to the school or philosophy of Plato 

  • So scholarly as to be unaware of the outside world; lacking in worldliness; inexperienced in practical matters. 

  • Belonging to an academy or other higher institution of learning, or a scholarly society or organization. 

  • Having little practical use or value, as by being overly detailed and unengaging, or by being theoretical and speculative with no practical importance. 

  • In particular: relating to literary, classical, or artistic studies like the humanities, rather than to technical or vocational studies like engineering or welding. 

  • Subscribing to the architectural standards of Vitruvius. 

noun
  • A senior member of an academy, college, or university; a person who attends an academy; a person engaged in scholarly pursuits; one who is academic in practice. 

  • A member of the Academy; an academician. 

  • A follower of Plato, a Platonist. 

  • Academic studies. 

  • Academic dress; academicals. 

ordinary

adj
  • Being part of the natural order of things; normal, customary, routine. 

  • Having no special characteristics or function; everyday, common, mundane; often deprecatory. 

  • Having regular jurisdiction; now only used in certain phrases. 

  • Bad or undesirable. 

noun
  • One of the standard geometric designs placed across the center of a coat of arms, such as a pale or fess. 

  • A part of the Christian liturgy that is reasonably constant without regard to the date on which the service is performed. 

  • A rule, or book of rules, prescribing the order of service, especially of Mass. 

  • A person having immediate jurisdiction in a given case of ecclesiastical law, such as the bishop within a diocese. 

  • The chaplain of Newgate prison, who prepared condemned prisoners for death. 

  • A meal provided for a set price at an eating establishment. 

  • A penny farthing bicycle. 

  • A judge with the authority to deal with cases himself or herself rather than by delegation. 

  • The usual course of things; normal condition or health; a standard way of behaviour or action. 

  • An ordinary person or thing; something commonplace. 

How often have the words academic and ordinary occurred in a corpus of books? (source: Google Ngram Viewer )