prefectural, a.
(prɪˈfɛktjʊərəl)
[f. prefecture + -al1.]
Of or pertaining to a prefecture. prefectural town or prefectural city, the chief town or city of a prefecture, the seat of the prefect.
| 1811 W. Taylor in Monthly Mag. XXXII. 62 There is a prefectural nursery at Colmar. 1880 E. Oppert Forbid. L. iv. 108 All prefectural officials [in Japan] are taken from the upper two degrees of this class. 1882 Missionary Herald (U.S.) Sept. 345 The prefectural cities Ta Tung and Sho P'ing. 1894 Westm. Gaz. 31 July 2/1 Nearly every prefectural town [in Korea] has its archery ground, on which in former days very frequently the Prefect would exercise his men. |