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provincial(dictionary)
provincial 2, noun(dictionary)
provincial 1, adjective(dictionary)
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provincial (iou)



provincial noun & adjective. ME.
[Old & mod. French from Latin provincialis, from provincia: see PROVINCE, -AL1.]
A. noun.
In pl. The people of Provence. Only in ME.
A native or inhabitant of a province. LME.
b. Hist. A native or inhabitant of any of the British colonies in N. America, esp. one engaged in military service. M18.
c. In Canada: a member of a provincial police force. M20.
Ecclesiastical. The ecclesiastical head of a province; the chief of a religious order in a district or province. LME.
Ecclesiastical.
a. An ordinance of a provincial synod. Also, a rescript addressed to an ecclesiastical province. E16-M17.
b. A provincial synod. Chiefly Scot. L16-M17.
A person who lives in or comes from the provinces, as opp. to a native or inhabitant of the capital or chief seat of government of a country; an unsophisticated or uncultured person. E18.
ellipt. A provincial newspaper. L19.
b. adjective.
Of or pertaining to an ecclesiastical province. LME.
a. Proven?al. Only in LME.
b. Designating the Provins rose; consisting of such roses. E-M17.
Of or pertaining to a province of a country, State, or empire, now esp. a province of Canada. LME.
b. Hist. Of or pertaining to European, esp. British, colonies in N. America. L17.
Having the relation of a province to a sovereign State. L16-E18.
Of or pertaining to a province or provinces as opp. to the whole nation or State; of or pertaining to the provinces as opp. to the capital or chief seat of government; having the manners, speech, or character, esp. the narrowness of view or interest, associated with or attributed to inhabitants of a province or the provinces; unsophisticated, uncultured. M17.
G. Greene The Lancashire farces he constructs..are genuinely provincial. A. Massie The even tenor of..provincial life. A. N. Wilson The Muscovites..seemed to them provincial and conservative.
b. transf. Of or pertaining to places outside that or those regarded as the national centre(s) for some activity. M19.
C. M. Bowra Oxford and Cambridge on..one side and 'provincial' universities on the other.
provincialate noun (Ecclesiastical) the position of provincial, the period of office of a provincial E20.
provinciali'zation noun the action of provincializing a place etc. E20.
provincialize verb trans. make provincial; make into a province, give the status of a province to: E19.
provincially adverb in a provincial manner or capacity; in a province or local area, in the provinces: E17.
provincialship noun = provincialate E17.