Category:Provincial

Pro*vin"cial, a. Etym: [l. provincialis: cf. F. provincial. See Province, and cf. Provencal.]

1. Of or pertaining to province; constituting a province; as, a Provincial government; a provincial dialect.

2. Exhibiting the ways or manners of a province; characteristic of The inhabitants of a province; not cosmopolitan; countrified; not Polished; rude; hence, narrow; illiberal. "provincial airs and Graces." Macaulay.

3. Of or pertaining to an ecclesiastical province, or to the Jurisdiction of an archbishop; not ecumenical; as, a provincial Synod. Ayliffe.

4. Of or pertaining to provence; provencal. [obs.] With two provincial roses on my razed shoes. Shak.

Provincial Pro*vin"cial, n.

1. A person belonging to a province; one who is provincial.

2. (r. C. Ch.)

Defn: 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.