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Webster's Dictionary (1865)

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Provincial

Pro-vin'cial, a.

adjective

a. [Fr., Pr., Sp., & Pg. provincial, It. provinciale, Lat. provincialis. See supra.]

  1. Pertaining to a province, or relating to it; as, a provincial government; a provincial dialect.
  2. Appendant to the principal kingdom or state; as, provincial dominion; provincial territory.
  3. Exhibiting the ways or manners of a province; characteristic of the inhabitants of a province; countrified; not polished; rude. “Fond of exhibiting provincial airs and graces.” Macaulay.
  4. Pertaining to an ecclesiastical province, or to the jurisdiction of an archbishop; not ecumenical; as, a provincial synod. Ayliffe.

Pro-vin'cial, n.

noun

n. 1. A person belonging to a province.

Sense 2. (Rom. Cath. Church.) A monastic superior, who, under the general of his order, has the direction of all the religious houses of the same fraternity in a given district, called a province of the order.