provinciate

English

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.
   • 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:

     a Designe to Provinciate the whole Kingdom

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

     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.

References

“provinciate”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.