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 direction of any special person; a division in any department of knowledge or speculation one's proper or appropriate busine , duty, or calling. [F.; L. provincia, a territory, conquest.] — Provufcial, -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 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 pecul iar word or manner of speaking in a province or district, remote from the metropolis. — Provin'ciallty, -shi-al'Y-tY, n. Peculiarity of language in a province. — Proven cal', pro-voN-sal', a. Of or pert, to Provence (the first Roman province in Gaul), or to its inhabitants or language. — n. The Romance tongue used in the Middle Ages, esp. in poetry; the Langue d'oc, as disting. the Langue a" oil of Northern France, — oc and oil signifying yes in the two dialects. Provision, Proviso, etc. See under Provide.