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provinciate

provinciate verb: to convert into a province or provinces.

Verb

provinciate (third-person singular simple present provinciates, present participle provinciating, simple past and past participle provinciated)

  1. (obsolete, transitive) To convert into a province or provinces.
    • a Designe to Provinciate the whole Kingdom1640, 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
    • 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...1809, An Address to the Landed Interest of Scotland, on the subject of distillation

Forms of provinciate

third-person singular presentprovinciates
present participleprovinciating
past participleprovinciated
pastprovinciated

Questions about provinciate

What does provinciate mean?
Provinciate means to convert into a province or provinces.
What part of speech is provinciate?
Provinciate is a verb.
What is the past tense of provinciate?
The past tense of provinciate is provinciated.

Words near provinciate in the dictionary

  1. provincialized
  2. provincializes
  3. provincializing
  4. provincially
  5. provincials
  6. provinciate
  7. provinciated
  8. provinciates
  9. provinciating
  10. provine
  11. provined

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