provinciate

present singular third person provinciates · participle present provinciating · participle past provinciated · past provinciated

1. obsoletetransitiveTo convert into a province or provinces.

   a Designe to Provinciate the whole Kingdom

   1640, I. H. [i.e., James Howell], ΔΕΝΔΡΟΛΟΓΊΑ [DENDROLOGIA]. Dodona’s Grove, or, The Vocall Forrest, London: […] T[homas] B[adger] for H. Mosley [i.e., Humphrey Moseley] […], →OCLC

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   Accordingly, after having provinciated Egypt, the most productive corn country in the world, he set about repairing the reservoirs and canals which served to retain and distribute the waters of the Nile; and he did every thing possible to restore that rich country to its primitive state of fertility.

   1809, An Address to the Landed Interest of Scotland, on the subject of distillation