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== Webster's Dictionary <ref name="term_162124" /> == | |||
<p> (1): </p> <p> (a.) Of or pertaining to province; constituting a province; as, a provincial government; a provincial dialect. </p> <p> (2): </p> <p> (a.) Exhibiting the ways or manners of a province; characteristic of the inhabitants of a province; not cosmopolitan; countrified; not polished; rude; hence, narrow; illiberal. </p> <p> (3): </p> <p> (a.) Of or pertaining to Provence; Provencal. </p> <p> (4): </p> <p> (a.) Of or pertaining to an ecclesiastical province, or to the jurisdiction of an archbishop; not ecumenical; as, a provincial synod. </p> <p> (5): </p> <p> (n.) 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. </p> <p> (6): </p> <p> (n.) A person belonging to a province; one who is provincial. </p> | |||
== Cyclopedia of Biblical, Theological and Ecclesiastical Literature <ref name="term_56986" /> == | |||
<p> The local superior of the monasteries (abbot, guardian, prior, etc.) stands under the supervision of the district superiors, or definitors; these are subordinated to the superiors of the province, or provincials, who are themselves under the direction of the general of the order, the head of the whole community. </p> | <p> The local superior of the monasteries (abbot, guardian, prior, etc.) stands under the supervision of the district superiors, or definitors; these are subordinated to the superiors of the province, or provincials, who are themselves under the direction of the general of the order, the head of the whole community. </p> | ||
==References == | ==References == | ||
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<ref name="term_162124"> [https://bibleportal.com/dictionary/webster-s-dictionary/provincial Provincial from Webster's Dictionary]</ref> | |||
<ref name="term_56986"> [https://bibleportal.com/encyclopedia/cyclopedia-of-biblical-theological-and-ecclesiastical-literature/provincial Provincial from Cyclopedia of Biblical, Theological and Ecclesiastical Literature]</ref> | <ref name="term_56986"> [https://bibleportal.com/encyclopedia/cyclopedia-of-biblical-theological-and-ecclesiastical-literature/provincial Provincial from Cyclopedia of Biblical, Theological and Ecclesiastical Literature]</ref> | ||
</references> | </references> | ||
Revision as of 09:51, 12 October 2021
Webster's Dictionary [1]
(1):
(a.) Of or pertaining to province; constituting a province; as, a provincial government; a provincial dialect.
(2):
(a.) 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):
(a.) Of or pertaining to Provence; Provencal.
(4):
(a.) Of or pertaining to an ecclesiastical province, or to the jurisdiction of an archbishop; not ecumenical; as, a provincial synod.
(5):
(n.) 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.
(6):
(n.) A person belonging to a province; one who is provincial.
Cyclopedia of Biblical, Theological and Ecclesiastical Literature [2]
The local superior of the monasteries (abbot, guardian, prior, etc.) stands under the supervision of the district superiors, or definitors; these are subordinated to the superiors of the province, or provincials, who are themselves under the direction of the general of the order, the head of the whole community.
