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An obsolete form of nurture. nourset, n. An obsolete form of nurse. nourslet, ". An obsolete variant of nuzzle. nourslingt, n. An obsolete form of nursling. nous (nös or nous), n. [Also nouse; IMG:content-1480.png:[blocks in formation] Sylvester, tr. of Du Bartas's Weeks, i. 2. I have shook off My thraldom, lady, and have made discoveries Of famous novels. Ford , Fancies, iv. 2. Perhaps I might have talk'd as of a third Person - or have introduc'd an Amour of my own, in Conversation, by way of Novel , But never have explain'd Particulars. Congreve, Love for Love, iii. 3. 21. A piece of news; news; tidings: usually in the plural. Off noueles anon gan hym to enquere; Where-hens he cam, and fro what place that day. Rom. of Partenay (E. E. T. S.), 1. 3882. In steed of other nouels , I sende you my opinion, in a plaine but true Sonnet, vpon the famous new worke intituled A Quippe for an Vpstart Courtier. C. Bird, Το Ε. Demetrius (1592). novel Count F. What! peasants purchase lordships? Jun . Is that any novels , sir? B. Jonson, Case is Altered, v. 4. You look sprightly, friend, And promise in your clear aspect some novel That may delight us. Mas singer , Great Duke of Florence, i. 2. 3. In civil law, a new or supplemental constitution or decree; one of the novel constitutions of certain Roman emperors, so called because they appeared after the authentic publications of law made by these emperors. Those of Just in i an (A. D. 527-65) are the best-known, and are commonly understood when the term is used. The Novels, together with the Institute, Code, and Digest, form the body of law which pa es under the name of Just in i an. Also novella. By the civil law, no one was to be ordained a presbyter till he was thirty-five years of age; though by a later novel it was sufficient if he was above thirty. Ayliffe. The famous decision which Glanville quotes about legitimation is embodied in what then was an Extravagant of Alexander III., delivered to the bishop of Exeter in 1172, founded no doubt on a Novel of Just in i an, but not till now distinctly made a part of church law. Stubbs , Medieval and Modern Hist., p. 306. 4. A fictitious prose narrative or tale, involving some plot of more or le intricacy, and aiming to present a picture of real life in the historical period and society to which the persons, manners, and modes of speech, as well as the scenery and surroundings, are supposed to belong. Its method is dramatic, and the novel may be regarded as a narrative play to the extent that the various persons or characters, upon whose qualities and actions the development and consummation of the plot or motive depend, are brought upon the scene to play their several parts according to their different personalities, disclosing, with the aid of the author's delineation analysis, diverse aspects of pa ion and purpose, and contributing their various parts to the machinery of the drama to be enacted among them. The novel may be regarded as representing the third stage of transition in the evolution of fictitious narrative, of which the epic was the first and the romance the second. The novel in its most recent form may be divided, according to its dominant theme or mot he philosophical, the political, the historical, the descriptive, the social, and the sentimental novel; to which may be added, as special forms, the novel of adventure, the novel of society, the novel of character, the novel of criticism and satire, the novel of reform, and the military, the nautical, and the sporting novel. Our Amours can't furnish out a Romance; they'll make a very pretty Novel . Steele, Tender Husband, iv. 1. The novel - what we call the novel - is a new invention. It is customary to date the first English novel with Richardson in 1740. S. Lanier, The English Novel, p. 3. Dime novel. See dime. - Novels (or Novelle) of Jus tinian. See def. 3. = Syn. 4. Tale, Romance, Novel. Tale IMG:content-1481.png:[blocks in formation] Printed bookes he contemnes, as a nouelty of this latter age. Bp. Earle , Micro-cosmographie, An Antiquary. 6. In patent law , the quality of being substantially different from any previous invention. Steele , Tatler, No. 178. novel wright (nov'el-rit), n. A novelist; a manufacturer of novels. Carlyle . [Contemptuous.] The best stories of the early and original Italian novelists .. appeared in an English dre before the close of the reign of Elizabeth. T. Warton , Hist. Eng. Poetry, III. 487. Ye writers of what none with safety reads, Footing it in the dance that Fancy leads; Ye novelists , who mar what ye would mend. 41. A novice. Cowper, Prog. of Err., 1. 309. There is nothing so easie that doth not hurt and hinder us, if we be but novelists therein. Lennard , Of Wisdome, ii. 7. § 18. (Encyc. Dict.) novelistic (nov-el-is'tik), a . [ novelist + -ic.] Pertaining to, consisting of, or found in novels or fictitious narratives. It is manifestly improbable that in all this galaxy of nov elistic talent there should be no genius. Contemporary Rev. , LI. 663. Will the future historian of the novelistic literature of the nineteenth century cease his study with a review of the author of "Romola" and "Middle march"? Fortnightly Rev., N. S., XXXIX. 771. novelize (nov'el-iz), v.; pret. and pp. novelized , ppr. novelizing . [ How affections do stand to be novelized by the mutability of the present times. Sir E. Dering, Speeches, p. 44. 2. To put into the form of a novel. The desperate attempt to novelize history. Sir J. Herschel. II. in trans. To innovate; cultivate novelty; seek new things. The novelizing spirit of man lives by variety and the new faces of things. Sir T. Browne , Christ. Mor., i. 25. novella (no-vel'ä), n.; pl. novellæ (-e). [LL.: see novel.] An imperial ordinance. See novel, 3. novelly (nov'el-li), adv. In a novel manner, or by a new method. A peculiar phase of hereditary insanity, which in Europe has always been considered incurable, but which I had treated novelly and succe fully in the East. Scribner's Mag ., IV. 744.