Definition of provincial

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Provincial (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..

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Patois :: Patois (n.) A dialect peculiar to the illiterate classes; a provincial form of speech.
Provincializing :: Provincializing (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Provincializ.
Provinciality :: Provinciality (n.) The quality or state of being provincial; peculiarity of language characteristic of a province.
Provincially :: Provincially (adv.) In a provincial manner.
Extraprovincial :: Extraprovincial (a.) Not within of pertaining to the same province or jurisdiction.
Synodic :: Synodal (n.) A constitution made in a provincial or diocesan synod.
Provincialized :: Provincialized (imp. & p. p.) of Provincializ.
Provincial :: Provincial (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..
Provincialism :: Provincialism (n.) A word, or a manner of speaking, peculiar to a province or a district remote from the mother country or from the metropolis; a provincial characteristic; hence, narrowness; illiberality..
Provincial :: Provincial (a.) Of or pertaining to Provence; Provencal.
Archimandrite :: Archimandrite (n.) A superintendent of several monasteries, corresponding to superior abbot, or father provincial, in the Roman Catholic church..
Cosmopolite :: Cosmopolite (a.) Having no fixed residence; at home in any place; free from local attachments or prejudices; not provincial; liberal.
Provincialist :: Provincialist (n.) One who lives in a province; a provincial.
Furzeling :: Furzeling (n.) An English warbler (Melizophilus provincialis); -- called also furze wren, and Dartford warbler..
Provincialize :: Provincialize (v. t.) To render provincial.
Deprovincialize :: Deprovincialize (v. t.) To divest of provincial quality or characteristics.
Comprovincial :: Comprovincial (n.) One who belongs to the same province.
Heave :: Heave (v. t.) To throw; to cast; -- obsolete, provincial, or colloquial, except in certain nautical phrases; as, to heave the lead; to heave the log..
Provincial :: Provincial (a.) Of or pertaining to an ecclesiastical province, or to the jurisdiction of an archbishop; not ecumenical; as, a provincial synod..
Comprovincial :: Comprovincial (a.) Belonging to, or associated in, the same province..
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