To police too much, as by patrolling a neighborhood excessively or meting out a punishment incommensurate to the severity of a crime.
overpublic
perculsive
preclusive
preclusive
adj
Serving to preclude.
prevesical
prevesical
adj
(anatomy) In front of a bladder, especially the urinary bladder.
prevocalic
prevocalic
adj
(phonetics) Immediately preceding a vowel or vowel sound
proclivity
proclivity
noun
A predisposition or natural inclination, propensity, or a predilection; especially, a strong disposition or bent.
proclivous
proclivous
adj
(zoology) Having the incisor teeth directed forward.
inclined towards something; tending by nature
provencial
provincial
provincial
adj
Constituting a province.
Exhibiting the ways or manners of a province; characteristic of the inhabitants of a province.
Limited in outlook; narrow.
Narrow; illiberal.
Not cosmopolitan; backwoodsy, hick, yokelish, countrified; not polished; rude
Of or pertaining to a province.
Of or pertaining to an ecclesiastical province, or to the jurisdiction of an archbishop; not ecumenical.
noun
(Roman Catholicism) 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.
(obsolete) A constitution issued by the head of an ecclesiastical province.
A country bumpkin.
A person belonging to a province; one who is provincial.
