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

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

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

Un- :: Un- (adv.) Those which are anomalous, provincial, or, for some other reason, not desirable to be used, and are so indicated; as, unpure for impure, unsatisfaction for dissatisfaction, unexpressible for inexpressible, and the like..

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..

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

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

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

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..

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..

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

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..

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

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

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

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..

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..

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

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

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

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