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ProvincialProvincial Pro*vin"cial, a. [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
Provincial Pro*vin"cial, n.
1. A person belonging to a province; one who is provincial.
2. (R. C. Ch.) 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.
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