novice

& a. [French, from Latin novicius, nov it i us =new, fresh, a novice, from nov us =new; Sp. novicio; Ital. novizio.] A. As substantive: I. Ordinary Language: 1. One who is new to any busine , profe ion, or art; one who is unskilled; a beginner, a tyro; one in the rudiments. "Many meetings were held at which the leaders in. structed the novices ."- Macaulay : Hist . Eng ., ch. vi. *2. One newly converted to the Christian faith. "[A bishop must be] not a novice."-1 Timothy iii. 6. II. Eccles .: A title given to men or women, with out regard to age, who have entered a religious house and desire to embrace its rule. They a ume the habit of the order or congregation, and live the daily life of the community. [POSTULANT.] *B. As adj .: Inexperienced. "With novice modesty." - Milton : P. R. , iii. 241. nov-içe-ship, s. [Eng. novice ; -ship .] The state or condition of a novice; novitiate. *nō-vi-lu-nar, s. [Lat. nov us =new, and luna = the moon.] Of or pertaining to the new moon. no-vi-ti-ate, nō-vi-ci-ate (ti, ci, a hi), s . & a. [Fr. nov it i at , from Low Lat. nov it i at us , from Lat. nov us =new, Sp. noviciado ; Ital. noviziato .] A. As substantive : I. Ordinary Language : *nō-vi-tious, a. [Lat. nov it i us , from nov us = new.] New, novel; newly invented. "What is now taught by the church of Rome is as an unwarrantable, so a no vitious interpretation."-Pearson: On the Creed, art. ix. *nov-i-ty, s . [Lat. novitas, from nov us=new.) Newne , novelty. "It was not from eternity, but from a nority or beginning."-Cudworth: Intellectual System , p. 244.