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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..

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 person belonging to a province; one who is provincial.

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

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

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

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

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..

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

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

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..

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

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..

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..

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

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

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

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

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

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

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