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prelate | provincial |

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)
  • A clergyman of high rank and authority, having jurisdiction over an area or a group of people; normally a bishop.
  • * Shakespeare
    • Hear him but reason in divinity, / You would desire the king were made a prelate .
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    • Derived terms

    * prelateship * prelatess * prelatic * prelatical * prelatise * prelatist * prelatize * prelatry

    Related terms

    * prelacy * prelatial * prelation * prelature * Personal Prelate * Opus Dei

    Verb

    (prelat)
  • (obsolete) To act as a prelate.
  • * Latimer
    • Right prelating is busy labouring, and not lording.

    Anagrams

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    provincial

    English

    (Webster 1913)

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • 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.
  • * ,
    • Provincial airs and graces.
  • 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.
  • * ,
    • With two Provincial roses on my razed shoes.
  • limited in outlook; narrow

    • Noun

    (en noun)
  • 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:
    • The Franciscan provincial Diego de Landa set up a local Inquisition which unleashed a campaign of interrogation and torture on the Indio population.
  • A country bumpkin.
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