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(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.

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.

PROVINCIALLY.

PROVINCIALLY.

Pertaining to a province; local; narrow.

An inhabitant of a province.

Provincialism.

Inhabitant of a province.

Pertaining to, or characteristic of, a province or its inhabitants.