Meanings
- not comparableBeing part of the same province.
He the six Islands, comprouinciall / In auncient times vnto great Britainee, / Shall to the same reduce [...].
1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book III, Canto III”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC1 more example
Inthronization, in ancient times, immediately succeeded the rite of consecration; the new bishop being honourably placed in his episcopal chair by the prelates assembled for his consecration. […] Symeon of Thessalonica states, that the rite of inthronization was formerly celebrated with great solemnity by all the comprovincial bishops.
1845, William Palmer, Origines Liturgicae, or, Antiquities of the English Ritual: And a Dissertation on Primitive Liturgies, 4th edition, volume 2, London: Francis & John Rivington, →OCLC, page 310
Origin
Translations
French comprovincial, comprovincial
- comprovincialof or pertaining to the same province
- comprovincialperson of the same province
Italian comprovinciale
- comprovincialeof or pertaining to the same province
Latin comprōvinciālis
- comprōvinciālisof or pertaining to the same province
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