PROVINCIAL

adj of or pertaining to provence; provencal.

2. provincial ·noun a person belonging to a province; one who is provincial.

3. provincial ·adj of or pertaining to province; constituting a province; as, a provincial government; a provincial dialect.

4. provincial ·adj of or pertaining to an ecclesiastical province, or to the jurisdiction of an archbishop; not ecumenical; as, a provincial synod.

5. provincial ·adj exhibiting the ways or manners of a province; characteristic of the inhabitants of a province; not cosmopolitan; countrified; not polished; rude; hence, narrow; illiberal.

6. provincial ·noun 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.