a. [ See Provençal. ] Of or pertaining to Provence in France. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ L. provincialis: cf. F. provincial. See Province, and cf. Provencal. ] 1. Of or pertaining to province; constituting a province; as, a provincial government; a provincial dialect. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Exhibiting the ways or manners of a province; characteristic of the inhabitants of a province; not cosmopolitan; countrified; not polished; rude; hence, narrow; illiberal. “Provincial airs and graces.” Macaulay. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. Of or pertaining to an ecclesiastical province, or to the jurisdiction of an archbishop; not ecumenical; as, a provincial synod. Ayliffe. [ 1913 Webster ]

4. Of or pertaining to Provence; Provencal. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

With two Provincial roses on my razed shoes. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. 1. A person belonging to a province; one who is provincial. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. (R. C. Ch.) 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. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Cf. F. provincialisme. ] 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. M. Arnold. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. One who lives in a province; a provincial. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. The quality or state of being provincial; peculiarity of language characteristic of a province. T. Warton. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Provincialized p. pr. & vb. n. Provincializing ] To render provincial. M. Arnold. [ 1913 Webster ]

adv. In a provincial manner. [ 1913 Webster ]