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Provincial
Webster's Dictionary
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(1):
(a.) Of or pertaining to province; constituting a province; as, a provincial government; a provincial dialect.
(2):
(a.) Exhibiting the ways or manners of a province; characteristic of the inhabitants of a province; not cosmopolitan; countrified; not polished; rude; hence, narrow; illiberal.
(3):
(a.) Of or pertaining to Provence; Provencal.
(4):
(a.) Of or pertaining to an ecclesiastical province, or to the jurisdiction of an archbishop; not ecumenical; as, a provincial synod.
(5):
(n.) 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.
(6):
(n.) A person belonging to a province; one who is provincial.
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Webster, Noah. Entry for 'Provincial'. Noah Webster's American Dictionary. https://www.studylight.org/dictionaries/eng/web/p/provincial.html. 1828.
Webster, Noah. Entry for 'Provincial'. Noah Webster's American Dictionary. https://www.studylight.org/dictionaries/eng/web/p/provincial.html. 1828.
