Prelate vs Provincial - What's the difference?
prelate | provincial |
A clergyman of high rank and authority, having jurisdiction over an area or a group of people; normally a bishop.
* Shakespeare
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(obsolete) To act as a prelate.
* Latimer
Of or pertaining to province; constituting a province; as, a provincial government; a provincial dialect.
Exhibiting the ways or manners of a province; characteristic of the inhabitants of a province.
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Not cosmopolitan; countrified; not polished; rude; hence, narrow; illiberal.
* Ayliffe,
Of or pertaining to an ecclesiastical province, or to the jurisdiction of an archbishop; not ecumenical; as, a provincial synod.
(obsolete) Of or pertaining to Provence; Provencal.
* ,
limited in outlook; narrow
A person belonging to a province; one who is provincial.
(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.
* 2009 , (Diarmaid MacCulloch), A History of Christianity , Penguin 2010, p. 700:
A country bumpkin.
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As a proper noun prelate
is a village in saskatchewan, canada.As an adjective provincial is
of or pertaining to province; constituting a province; as, a provincial government; a provincial dialect.As a noun provincial is
a person belonging to a province; one who is provincial.prelate
English
(wikipedia prelate)Noun
(en noun)- Hear him but reason in divinity, / You would desire the king were made a prelate .
Derived terms
* prelateship * prelatess * prelatic * prelatical * prelatise * prelatist * prelatize * prelatryVerb
(prelat)- Right prelating is busy labouring, and not lording.
Anagrams
*provincial
English
(Webster 1913)Adjective
(en adjective)- Provincial airs and graces.
- With two Provincial roses on my razed shoes.
Noun
(en noun)- The Franciscan provincial Diego de Landa set up a local Inquisition which unleashed a campaign of interrogation and torture on the Indio population.
