Provincial

Definitions

1. A person belonging to a province; one who is provincial.
2. Of or pertaining to Provence; Provençal
3. 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.
4. A constitution issued by the head of an ecclesiastical province.
   obsolete
5. A country bumpkin.

Equivalents

Examples

“The Franciscan provincial Diego de Landa set⟳ up a local Inquisition which unleashed a campaign of interrogation and torture on the Indio population.”

“Or els is thys Goddis law, Decrees or decretals, Or holy sinodals, Or els provincyals, Thus within the wals Of holy church to deale […]?”

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