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Provinciality :: Provinciality (n.) The quality or state of being provincial; peculiarity of language characteristic of a province.

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..

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..

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

Provincialize :: Provincialize (v. t.) To render provincial.

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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..

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

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..

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

Cosmopolite :: Cosmopolite (a.) Having no fixed residence; at home in any place; free from local attachments or prejudices; not provincial; liberal.

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..

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

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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