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Provincial :: Provincial (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..

Provincial :: Provincial (a.) Of or pertaining to an ecclesiastical province, or to the jurisdiction of an archbishop; not ecumenical; as, a provincial synod..

Provincialist :: Provincialist (n.) One who lives in a province; a provincial.

Patavinity :: Patavinity (n.) The use of local or provincial words, as in the peculiar style or diction of Livy, the Roman historian; -- so called from Patavium, now Padua, the place of Livy's nativity..

Presbytery :: Presbytery (n.) A judicatory consisting of all the ministers within a certain district, and one layman, who is a ruling elder, from each parish or church, commissioned to represent the church in conjunction with the pastor. This body has a general jurisdiction over the churches under its care, and next below the provincial synod in authority..

Furzeling :: Furzeling (n.) An English warbler (Melizophilus provincialis); -- called also furze wren, and Dartford warbler..

Comprovincial :: Comprovincial (n.) One who belongs to the same province.

Tiffin :: Tiffin (n.) A lunch, or slight repast between breakfast and dinner; -- originally, a Provincial English word, but introduced into India, and brought back to England in a special sense..

Provincially :: Provincially (adv.) In a provincial manner.

Provincialized :: Provincialized (imp. & p. p.) of Provincializ.

Cosmopolite :: Cosmopolite (a.) Having no fixed residence; at home in any place; free from local attachments or prejudices; not provincial; liberal.

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..

Provincial :: Provincial (a.) Of or pertaining to Provence; Provencal.

Provincial :: Provincial (a.) Of or pertaining to province; constituting a province; as, a provincial government; a provincial dialect..

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..

Extraprovincial :: Extraprovincial (a.) Not within of pertaining to the same province or jurisdiction.

Deprovincialize :: Deprovincialize (v. t.) To divest of provincial quality or characteristics.

Provincializing :: Provincializing (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Provincializ.

Patois :: Patois (n.) A dialect peculiar to the illiterate classes; a provincial form of speech.

Provincial :: Provincial (n.) A person belonging to a province; one who is provincial.

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