\Pro*vin"cial\, 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.
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.
3. Of or pertaining to an ecclesiastical province, or to the
   jurisdiction of an archbishop; not ecumenical; as, a
   provincial synod. --Ayliffe.
4. Of or pertaining to Provence; Provencal. [Obs.]
         With two Provincial roses on my razed shoes. --Shak.

\Pro*vin"cial\, n.
1. A person belonging to a province; one who is provincial.
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.