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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..

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

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

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

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

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..

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

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

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

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

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..

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

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

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.

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

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

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