provincial

Etymology

Definitions

1. 1

   Of or pertaining to a province.

   • a provincial government
   • a provincial dialect
   • More than 100 provincial and municipal firefighters were brought in, with helicopters and aircraft used to drop water and fire retardant, while bulldozers were digging firebreaks.
2. 2

   Constituting a province.

3. 3

   Exhibiting the ways or manners of a province

   Exhibiting the ways or manners of a province; characteristic of the inhabitants of a province.

   • […] fond of exhibiting provincial airs and graces.
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   1. 4

      Not cosmopolitan

      Not cosmopolitan; limited in outlook; narrow; illiberal.

   2. 5

      Of or pertaining to an ecclesiastical province, or to the jurisdiction of an archbishop

      Of or pertaining to an ecclesiastical province, or to the jurisdiction of an archbishop; not ecumenical.

      • a provincial synod
   3. 6

      A person belonging to a province

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

   4. 7

      A monastic superior, who, under the general of his order, has the direction of all the…

      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.

      • The Franciscan provincial Diego de Landa set up a local Inquisition which unleashed a campaign of interrogation and torture on the Indio population.
   5. 8

      A constitution issued by the head of an ecclesiastical province.

      • Or els is thys Goddis law, Decrees or decretals, Or holy sinodals, Or els provincyals, Thus within the wals Of holy church to deale […]?
   6. 9

      A country bumpkin.

   7. 10

      Of or pertaining to Provence

      Of or pertaining to Provence; Provençal.

      • With two Provincial roses on my razed shoes.

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