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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.
Meaning of Provincial from wikipedia
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Provincial may
refer to:
Provincial capitals, an
administrative sub-national
capital of a country...
-
divided between the
Government of
Canada (the
federal government) and the
provincial governments to
exercise exclusively. A
change to the
division of powers...
- to both the
State Council and the
Provincial People's Congress. The
provincial branch of the CCP has a
Provincial Party Congress every five years, and...
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means universal.
Traditional capitals may be
economically eclipsed by
provincial rivals as is the case with
Nanjing by Shanghai,
Quebec City by Montreal...
- A sub-
provincial division (Chinese: 副省级行政区; pinyin: Fùshěngjí xíngzhèngqū) in
China is a prefecture-level city
governed by a
province promoted by half-a-level...
- it is emplo**** for
provincial prime ministers to
differentiate them from the
prime minister of Canada.
There are ten
provincial premiers and
three territorial...
- A
member of
Provincial Parliament (MPP) is an
elected member of the
Legislative ****embly of the
Canadian province of Ontario.
Elsewhere in Canada, the...
- The
provincial secretary was a
senior position in the
executive councils of
British North America's
colonial governments, and was
retained by the Canadian...
- In Canada,
there are two
types of
sales taxes levied.
These are :
Provincial sales taxes or PST (French:
Taxes de
vente provinciale - TVP),
levied by the...
- A
provincial episcopal visitor (PEV), po****rly
known as a
flying bishop, is a
Church of
England bishop ****igned to
minister to many of the clergy, laity...
