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for present need or for be the occasion; temporary. — Provisionally, adv. By -n, way of provision; temporarily.— Provi'so, -virzo, n.; pi. -SOS, -zoz. A conditional" stipulation that affects an agreement, contract, law, grant, etc.— Provisory,; -zo-rT, a. Conditional; making temporary provision., im- Province, provlns, n. A country or region dependent on a distant authority; a division of an empire, or state, esp. one remote from the capital; a region of country; tract; large extent; a region under the an direction of any special person; a division in any department of knowledge or speculation; one's appropriate busine , duty, or calling.— Provincial, — -shal, a. Pert, or relating to a province; appendant to the principal kingdom or state; exhibiting the ways or manners of a province; countrified; rude; uncouth; having local prejudices; illiberal,— opp. to To cosmopolitan. — n. One belonging to a province. (Rom. Cath. Ch.) A monastic superior, in charge of all the religious houses of the same fraternity in a given district.— Provincialism, -izm, n. A peculto iar word or manner of speaking in a province or dis is trict, remote from the metropolis. — ProvuVciallty, -shi-al'T-tT. n. Peculiarity of language in a provproince. — Proven cal', pro-voN-sal', a. Of or pert, to Provence (the lirst Roman province in Gaul), or to to its inhabitants or language. — n. The Romance tongue used in the Middle Ages, esp. in poetry; the n. Languc a"oc, as disting. fr. the Langve d'oil of Northern France, — oc and oil signifying yes in the two dialects.