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

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 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..

Presbytery :: Presbytery (n.) A judicatory consisting of all the ministers within a certain district, and one layman, who is a ruling elder, from each parish or church, commissioned to represent the church in conjunction with the pastor. This body has a general jurisdiction over the churches under its care, and next below the provincial synod in authority..

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

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

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..

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

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..

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

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..

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

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

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

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

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

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

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