provinciala.[L. provincialis: cf. F. provincial. See Province, and cf. Provencal.]1. Of or pertaining to province; constituting a province; as, a provincial government; a provincial dialect.()2. Exhibiting the ways or manners of a province; characteristic of the inhabitants of a province; not cosmopolitan; countrified; not polished; rude; hence, narrow; illiberal.(Macaulay.)3. Of or pertaining to an ecclesiastical province, or to the jurisdiction of an archbishop; not ecumenical; as, a provincial synod.(Ayliffe.)4. Of or pertaining to Provence; Provencal.()With two Provincial roses on my razed shoes. (Shak.)n.1. A person belonging to a province; one who is provincial.()2. (R. C. Ch.) 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.()