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Of or pertaining to province; constituting a province; as, a provincial government; a provincial dialect.

liar to a province or a district remote from the mother country or from the metropolis; a provincial characteristic; hence, narrowness; illiberality. M. Arnold.

One who lives in a province; a provincial.

The quality or state of being provincial; peculiarity of language characteristic of a province. T. Warton.

To render provincial. M. Arnold.

In a provincial manner.

One who belongs to the same province. [Obs.] The six islands, comprovincial In ancient times unto Great Britain. Spenser.

To divest of provincial quality or characteristics.

Not within of pertaining to the same province or jurisdiction. Ayliffe.

A superintendent of several monasteries, corresponding to superior abbot, or father provincial, in the Roman Catholic church.

d to a council of the war department of the Austrian empire, and the members of different provincial chanceries of that empire are called aulic councilors. P. Cyc.

authority in literature and art; chaste; pure; refined; as, a classical style. Classical, provincial, and national synods. Macaulay. Classicals orders. (Arch.) See under Order.

no fixed residence; at home in any place; free from local attachments or prejudices; not provincial; liberal. In other countries taste is perphaps too exclusively national, in Germany it is certainly too cosmopolite. Sir W. Hamilton.

a fossil; antiquated; firmly fixed in views or opinions. A fossilized sample of confused provincialism. Earle.

An English warbler (Melizophilus provincialis); -- called also furze wren, and Dartford warbler.

To throw; to cast; -- obsolete, provincial, or colloquial, except in certain nautical phrases; as, to heave the lead; to heave the log.

A Chinese provincial tax levied at many inland stations upon imports or articles in transit.

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.

A dialect peculiar to the illiterate classes; a provincial form of speech. The jargon and patois of several provinces. Sir T. Browne.

This body has a general jurisdiction over the churches under its care, and next below the provincial synod in authority.