Province

Sometimes this signifies the district into which a country has been divided; as, the province of Canterbury, in England; the province of Languedoc, in France. Sometimes it means a dependency or colony, as the province of New Brunswick. It is sometimes used figuratively to signify power or authority; as, it is the province of the court to judge of the law, that of the jury to decide on the facts.

Sometimes this signifies the district into which a country has been divided: as, the province of Canterbury, in England; the province of Languedoc, in France. Sometimes it means a dependency or colony: as, the province of New Brunswick. It is sometimes used figuratively to signify power or authority: as, it is the province of the court to judge of the law, that of the jury to decide on the facts.

1. In ecclesiastical law, the circuit of an archbishop's jurisdiction. Sometimes a county; and more generally an out-country governed by a deputy or lieutenant. 2. The word is also sometimes used figuratively to signify power or authority; as in saying that it is the province of the court to judge of the law, that of the jury to decide on the facts. Provincial constitutions. The decrees of provincial synods held under divers archbishops of Canterbury, from Stephen Langton, in the reign of Henry IIL, to Henry Chichele, in the reign of Henry V., and adopted also by the province of York in the reign of Henry VI., — are so called. Lynd. Provinciale. Provincial courts. The several archiepiscopal courts in the two ecclesiastical provinces of England. Wharton.