单词 | provincially |
释义 | provinciallyadv. In a provincial manner or capacity, at a provincial level; in, or with respect to, a province or the provinces. ΘΚΠ society > authority > rule or government > territorial jurisdiction or areas subject to > an administrative division of territory > [adverb] > in manner of a province provincially1628 society > faith > church government > member of the clergy > clerical superior > metropolitan > [adverb] > see provincially1628 1628 J. Doughty Church Schismes in Disc. Divine Myst. 25 About Lent and autumne they ordained councels provincially to be held. 1681 H. Neville Plato Redivivus 79 We have the same Foundations that all other Aristocracies have, who Govern but one City, and have no Territory but what they Govern Provincially. 1704 Addr. Durham in London Gaz. No. 4049/1 We.., the Clergy of this Diocese, having been already Provincially Represented to Your Majesty. 1789 W. Marshall Rural Econ. Glocestershire II. 7 The soil, generally, a calcarious loam: mostly mixt with gravel and small stones: provincially ‘stone brash’. a1824 Encycl. Metrop. (1845) XVI. 672/1 The Cider-mill consists of a stone wheel, provincially a ‘runner’. 1864 N. Amer. Rev. Apr. 350 Th was probably vulgarly and provincially interchanged with t. 1916 R. S. Bourne in Atlantic Monthly July 95/2 These friends are oblivious to the repressions of that tight little society in which he so provincially grew up. 1933 Amer. Polit. Sci. Rev. 27 211 It is not intended to imply that any of them is provincially minded or that he thinks and acts primarily as a member of any particular group, province, or region. 1972 Globe & Mail (Toronto) 24 Nov. 3/5 In addition to being disfranchised provincially, the Inuit (as Eskimos prefer to call themselves) have no real representative in the federal Parliament either. 1992 J. M. Bumsted Peoples of Canada vi. 190 During the Depression, Canadians thought regionally or provincially rather than nationally. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2007; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < adv.1628 |
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