-
One
who
belongs
to
a
distant
dependent
country
or
to
an
outlying
district;
countryman.
-
An
inhabitant
of
a
province
or
country
district:
in
the
R.
Cath.
Church,
the
superintendent
of
the
heads
of
the
religious
houses
in
a
province.
-
Inhabitant
of
a
province.
-
An
inhabitant
of
a
province.
-
Provincialism.
-
An
inhabitant
of
a
district
of
the
country,
as
distinguished
from
an
inhabitant
of
the
capital;
in
R.
Cath.
Ch.,
a
monastic
superior
or
governor.
-
PROVINCIALLY.
-
(
Roman
Catholic
Church)
an
official
in
charge
of
an
ecclesiastical
province
acting
under
the
superior
general
of
a
religious
order; "
the
general
of
the
Jesuits
receives
monthly
reports
from
the
provincials"
-
Of
or
pertaining
to
province;
constituting
a
province;
as,
a
provincial
government;
a
provincial
dialect.
-
Exhibiting
the
ways
or
manners
of
a
province;
characteristic
of
the
inhabitants
of
a
province;
not
cosmopolitan;
countrified;
not
polished;
rude;
hence,
narrow;
illiberal.
-
Of
or
pertaining
to
an
ecclesiastical
province,
or
to
the
jurisdiction
of
an
archbishop;
not
ecumenical;
as,
a
provincial
synod.
-
Of
or
pertaining
to
Provence;
Provencal.
-
A
person
belonging
to
a
province;
one
who
is
provincial.
-
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.
-
Pertaining
to,
or
like,
an
outlying
district
or
distant
dependent
country;
countrified;
crude
in
appearance
or
manner;
holding
to
the
ideas
and
customs
of
one
special
region;
hence,
narrow.
-
Pertaining
to,
or
characteristic
of,
a
province
or
its
inhabitants.
-
Pertaining
to
a
province;
local;
narrow.
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