Difference between revisions of "Provincial"
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== Webster's Dictionary <ref name="term_162124" /> == | == Webster's Dictionary <ref name="term_162124" /> == | ||
<p> '''(1):''' ''' (''' a.) Of or pertaining to province; constituting a province; as, a provincial government; a provincial dialect. </p> <p> '''(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. </p> <p> '''(3):''' ''' (''' a.) Of or pertaining to Provence; Provencal. </p> <p> '''(4):''' ''' (''' a.) Of or pertaining to an ecclesiastical province, or to the jurisdiction of an archbishop; not ecumenical; as, a provincial synod. </p> <p> '''(5):''' ''' (''' n.) | <p> '''(1):''' ''' (''' a.) Of or pertaining to province; constituting a province; as, a provincial government; a provincial dialect. </p> <p> '''(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. </p> <p> '''(3):''' ''' (''' a.) Of or pertaining to Provence; Provencal. </p> <p> '''(4):''' ''' (''' a.) Of or pertaining to an ecclesiastical province, or to the jurisdiction of an archbishop; not ecumenical; as, a provincial synod. </p> <p> '''(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. </p> <p> '''(6):''' ''' (''' n.) A person belonging to a province; one who is provincial. </p> | ||
== Cyclopedia of Biblical, Theological and Ecclesiastical Literature <ref name="term_56986" /> == | == Cyclopedia of Biblical, Theological and Ecclesiastical Literature <ref name="term_56986" /> == | ||
Latest revision as of 16:45, 15 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.
