provincial
/pɹəˈvɪn(t)ʃəl/
adjective6
noun4
- 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.
- The Franciscan provincial Diego de Landa set up a local Inquisition which unleashed a campaign of interrogation and torture on the Indio population. — 2009
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