provincial
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Is provincial a Scrabble word?
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Definition
noun (English)
1. (Roman Catholicism) 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.Examples: "The Franciscan provincial Diego de Landa set up a local Inquisition which unleashed a campaign of interrogation and torture on the Indio population."
2. (obsolete) A constitution issued by the head of an ecclesiastical province.Examples: "Or els is thys Goddis law, Decrees or decretals, Or holy sinodals, Or els provincyals, Thus within the wals Of holy church to deale […]?"obsolete
adj (English)
1. (obsolete) Of or pertaining to Provence; Provençal.Examples: "With two Provincial roses on my razed shoes."not-comparableobsolete
Definition source: Wiktionary