official vs provincial

official

adj
  • Relating to an ecclesiastical judge appointed by a bishop, chapter, archdeacon, etc., with charge of the spiritual jurisdiction. 

  • Discharging an office or function. 

  • Relating to an office; especially, to a subordinate executive officer or attendant. 

  • True, real, beyond doubt. 

  • Approved by authority; authorized. 

  • Of or pertaining to an office or public trust. 

  • Derived from the proper office or officer, or from the proper authority; made or communicated by virtue of authority 

  • Dubious but recognized by authorities as truth and/or canon. 

  • Listed in a national pharmacopeia. 

  • Sanctioned by the pharmacopoeia; appointed to be used in medicine; officinal. 

noun
  • An office holder, a person holding an official position in government, sports, or other organization. 

provincial

adj
  • Of or pertaining to an ecclesiastical province, or to the jurisdiction of an archbishop; not ecumenical. 

  • Not cosmopolitan; backwoodsy, hick, yokelish, countrified; not polished; rude 

  • Narrow; illiberal. 

  • Constituting a province. 

  • Of or pertaining to a province. 

  • Limited in outlook; narrow. 

  • Exhibiting the ways or manners of a province; characteristic of the inhabitants of a province. 

noun
  • A country bumpkin. 

  • A person belonging to a province; one who is provincial. 

  • 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. 

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