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Webster 1913 Edition

Provincial

Pro-vin′cial

,
Adj.
[L.
provincialis
: cf. F.
provincial
. See
Province
, and cf.
Provencal
.]
1.
Of or pertaining to province; constituting a province;
as, a
provincial
government; a
provincial
dialect.
2.
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.
3.
Of or pertaining to an ecclesiastical province, or to the jurisdiction of an archbishop; not ecumenical;
as, a
provincial
synod
.
Ayliffe.
4.
Of or pertaining to Provence; Provencal.
[Obs.]
With two
Provincial
roses on my razed shoes.
Shakespeare

Pro-vin′cial

,
Noun.
1.
A person belonging to a province; one who is provincial.
2.
(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.

Webster 1828 Edition

Provincial

PROVIN'CIAL

,
Adj.
Pertaining to a province or relating to it; as a provincial government; a provincial dialect.
1.
Appendant to the principal kingdom or state; as provincial dominion; provincial territory.
2.
Not polished; rude; as provincial accent or manners.
3.
Pertaining to an ecclesiastical province, or to the jurisdiction of an archbishop; not ecumenical; as a provincial synod.

PROVIN'CIAL

,
Noun.
A spiritual governor. In catholic countries, one who has the direction of the several convents of a province.
1.
A person belonging to a province.

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