ordinary vs provincial

ordinary

noun
  • A person having immediate jurisdiction in a given case of ecclesiastical law, such as the bishop within a diocese. 

  • One of the standard geometric designs placed across the center of a coat of arms, such as a pale or fess. 

  • A part of the Christian liturgy that is reasonably constant without regard to the date on which the service is performed. 

  • A rule, or book of rules, prescribing the order of service, especially of Mass. 

  • The chaplain of Newgate prison, who prepared condemned prisoners for death. 

  • A meal provided for a set price at an eating establishment. 

  • A penny farthing bicycle. 

  • A judge with the authority to deal with cases himself or herself rather than by delegation. 

  • The usual course of things; normal condition or health; a standard way of behaviour or action. 

  • An ordinary person or thing; something commonplace. 

adj
  • Having no special characteristics or function; everyday, common, mundane; often deprecatory. 

  • Being part of the natural order of things; normal, customary, routine. 

  • Having regular jurisdiction; now only used in certain phrases. 

  • Bad or undesirable. 

provincial

noun
  • 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. 

  • A country bumpkin. 

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

adj
  • 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. 

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

How often have the words ordinary and provincial occurred in a corpus of books? (source: Google Ngram Viewer )