provincial

Definitions

1. 1.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 airs and graces." Macaulay.
2. 2.Of or pertaining to an ecclesiastical province, or to the jurisdiction of an archbishop; not ecumenical; as, a provincial synod. Ayliffe.
3. 3.Of or pertaining to Provence; Provencal. [Obs.] With two Provincial roses on my razed shoes. Shak.
4. 4.A person belonging to a province; one who is provincial.
5. 5.(R. C. Ch.) 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.

Source: Webster's Unabridged Dictionary, 1913 edition (public domain, via GCIDE / Project Gutenberg).

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Definition-first questions whose answer is provincial.

• What is of or pertaining to an ecclesiastical province, or to the jurisdiction of an archbishop; not ecumenical; as, a provincial synod. Ayliffe called?
• What is of or pertaining to Provence; Provencal. [Obs.] With two Provincial roses on my razed shoes. Shak called?
• What is a person belonging to a province; one who is provincial called?
• What is 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 called?