Raw coffee beans, soaked in water and spices, are chewed like candy in many parts of Africa.
PROVINCIALLY
provincially
(adverb) by the province; through the province; “provincially controlled”
Source: WordNet® 3.1
Etymology
Adverb
provincially (comparative more provincially, superlative most provincially)
In a provincial way.
Synonyms
• parochially
Source: Wiktionary
Pro*vin"cial*ly, adv.
Definition: In a provincial manner.
PROVINCIAL
Pro*vin"cial, a. Etym: [L. provincialis: cf. F. provincial. See Province, and cf. Provencal.]
1. Of or pertaining to province; constituting a province; as, a provincial government; a provincial dialect.
2. Exhibiting the ways or manners of a province; characteristic of the inhabitants of a province; not cosmopolitan; countrified; not polished; rude; hence, narrow; illiberal. "Provincial airs and graces." Macaulay.
3. Of or pertaining to an ecclesiastical province, or to the jurisdiction of an archbishop; not ecumenical; as, a provincial synod. Ayliffe.
4. Of or pertaining to Provence; Provencal. [Obs.] With two Provincial roses on my razed shoes. Shak.
Pro*vin"cial, n.
1. A person belonging to a province; one who is provincial.
2. (R. C. Ch.)
Definition: 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.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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