provisorshiprare.|prəʊˈvaɪzəʃɪp| [See -ship.] The office or position of a provisor. 1623Webster Duchess of Malfi i. i, What's my place? The provisorship o' the horse?1651N. Bacon Disc.Govt.Eng. ii. xxvii. (1739) 122 The King hath no power thereby to confer Church-livings by Provisorship.