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

Archimandrite :: Archimandrite (n.) A superintendent of several monasteries, corresponding to superior abbot, or father provincial, in the Roman Catholic church..

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

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

Comprovincial :: Comprovincial (a.) Belonging to, or associated in, the same province..

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

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..

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

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

Synodic :: Synodal (n.) A constitution made in a provincial or diocesan synod.

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

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

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..

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

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 province; constituting a province; as, a provincial government; a provincial dialect..

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

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

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..

Whinstone :: Whinstone (n.) A provincial name given in England to basaltic rocks, and applied by miners to other kind of dark-colored unstratified rocks which resist the point of the pick. -- for example, to masses of chert. Whin-dikes, and whin-sills, are names sometimes given to veins or beds of basalt..

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