Provincial /(?)/

Pro·vin·cial

Provincial

a.
  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.
  3. Of or pertaining to an ecclesiastical province, or to the jurisdiction of an archbishop; not ecumenical; as, a provincial synod.
  4. Of or pertaining to Provence; Provencal. [Obs.]
    With two Provincial roses on my razed shoes.

Provincial

n.
  1. A person belonging to a province; one who is provincial.
  2. 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. (R. C. Ch.)