noverint (noverint)

[So called as beginning with the words noverint universi, 'let all men know': noverint, 3d pers. pl. perf. subj. of IMG:content-1483.png:[blocks in formation] Thou art a maister whan thou art at hoom; No poure cloisterer, ne no novys . One hundred years ago, When I was a novice in this place, These nouice lovers at their first arrive Are bash full both. Sylvester, tr. of Du Bartas's Weeks, ii., The Magnificence. The wisest, unexperienced, will be ever Timorous and loath with novice modesty. Milton, P. R., iii. 241. noviceship (nov'is-ship), n. [ -ship .] The state of being a novice. [Rare.] noviciate, a. and n. See novitiate . nov i homines. Plural of nov us hoто . novilantt, n . See novelant . novitiate, noviciate (nō-vish'i-at), a. [ nov it i at us , adj., nov it i us , a novice: see novice and -atel.] Inexperienced; unpractised. I discipline my young noviciate thought In ministeries of heart-stirring song. I am he who was the Abbot Boniface at Kennaquhair, hunted round to the place in which I served my no- viciate. Scott , Abbot, xxxviii. 3. A novice or probationer. The abbe had been informed the night before of all that had pa ed between her noviciate and Father Francis. Add is on , Spectator, No. 164. 4. The house or separate building, in connec- tion with a convent, in which the novices pa their time of probation. nov it i oust (no-vish'us), a . [L. novicius, nov i- tius , new, newly arrived: see novice .] Newly invented. What is now taught by the church of Rome is as [an] unwarrantable, so a no vitious interpretation. Bp . Pearson , Expos. of Creed, ix. novityt (nov'i-ti), n. [OF. novite, noviteit = Sp. novedad = Pg. novidade = It. nov ità, The novity of the world, and that it had a beginning, is another proof of a Deity, and his being author and maker of it. Evelyn, True Religion, I. 57. And if a straunger syt neare thee, ener among now and than Reward thou him with some daynties: shew thy selfe a Gentleman. Babees Book (E. E. T. S.), p. 77. A mead here, there a heath, and now and then a wood. Drayton . When I am now and then alone, and look back upon my past life, from my earliest infancy to this time, there are many faults which I committed that did not appear to me, even until I myself became a father. Steele , Spectator, No. 263. novodamus (nō-vo-dā'mus), n. [L. de novo dam us , we give a grant anew: de novo , anew (see de novo); dam us , 1st pers. pl. pres. ind. of dare , give: see date1 .] In Scots law , a clause sub- joined to the dispositive clause in some char- Nowaterstt. See at erst (b), under erst . Now... now, ters, whereby the superior, whether the crown or a subject, grants de novo (anew) the subjects, rights, or privileges therein described. Such a charter may be granted where a va al believes his right defective, but, notwithstanding its name, it may also be a first grant. Imp . Dict. Novo-Zelania (nō"vō-zē-lāʼni-ä), n. [NL., New Zealand .] In zoögeog . , a faunal area of the earth's land surface coincident in extent with the islands of New Zealand. Novo-Zelanian (nō"vō-zē-lāʼni-an), a . [ Novo - Zelania + -an .] Of or pertaining to New Zealand: as, "the Novo- Zelanian provinces," Huxley . novumt (nō'vum), n. See novem . nov us homo (nov us hōmō), n.; pl. nov i hom i- nes (no'vi hom'i-nēz). [L., a new man: see new and homo .] Among the ancient Romans, one who had raised himself from obscurity to distinction without the aid of family connec- tions. now (nou), adv . and conj . [ nu , nu = OS. OFries. nu = D. nu = MLG. nu = OHG. MHG. nu, nù, G. nu = Icel. nu = Sw. Dan. nu = Goth. nu = Gr. vú = Skt. nu , nu , now; also, with adverbial addition, MHG. nuon, G. OBulg. nyne = L. nunc for * nunce ( * nun + -ce , demonstrative suffix) = Gr. viv , now. Cf. new.] I. adv. 1. At the present point of time; present point at the present time; at this juncture. Nowe this geare beginneth for to frame. Udall , Roister Doister, i. 3. Elidure, after many years Imprisonment, is now the third time seated on the Throne. Milton, Hist. Eng., i. Then, nothing but rushes upon the ground, and every thing else mean; now , all otherwise. Pepys , Diary, III. 62. I have a patient now living at an advanced age, who dis- charged blood from his lungs thirty years ago. Arbuthnot . The sunny gardens. opened their flowers... in the places now occupied by great warehouse and other mas- sive edifices. O. W. Holmes, Emerson, i. Before this worlds great frame, in which al things Are now containd, found any being-place. 3. But lately; a little while ago. Ay loved be that lufly lorde of his lighte, one time at another time; sometimes times, alternately or succe ively. Now up, now doun, as boket in a welle. Chaucer , Knight's Tale, 1. 675. Thus like the rage of fire the combat burns, And now it rises, now it sinks by turns. Pope , Iliad, xviii. 2. 2. Equivalent to now that , with omi ion of that . Now per sones han parceyued that freres parte with hem, Thise po e ion eres preche and depraue freres. Piers Plowman (B), v. 143. Why should he live, now Nature bankrupt is? Shak., Sonnets, lxvii. The present time now (nou), n. [ Yet thus receiving and returning Bli , In this gret Moment, in this golden Now . Prior, Celia to Damon. An everlasting Now reigns in nature, which hangs the same roses on our bushes which charmed the Roman and the Chaldæan in their hanging gardens. Emerson, Works and Days, p. 156. now (nou), a. [ York Plays , p. 3. They that but now , for honour and for plate, Made the sea blush with blood, resign their hate. Waller, Late War with Spain. 4. At or by that past time (in vivid narration); at this (or that) particular point in the course of events; thereupon; then. Shak., Venus and Adonis, 1. 349. The walls being cleared, these two kindred cavaliers now hastened with their forces in pursuit of the seventy Moors. Irving , Granada, p. 55. 5. Things being so; as the case stands; after what has been said or done. Shak ., Venus and Adonis, 1. 249. How shall any man distinguish now betwixt a parasite and a man of honour, where hypocrisy and interest look so like duty and affection? Sir R. L'Estrange. days, dayes , etc.; now + adays .] In these days; in the present age: sometimes used as a noun. Now a day is I lese all that I wanne, Where here before I was a threfty man. Generydes (E. E. T. S.), 1. 1133. And since the time is such, euen now a dayes, As hath great nede of prayers truly prayde, Come forth, my priests, and I will bydde your beades. Gas coigne, Steele Glas (ed. Arber), p. 74. Milton , Answer to Salmasius, ii. 55. Methinks the lays of nowadays Are painfully in earnest. command, entreaty, remonstrance, and the like: as, come, now , stop that! that ther-of yow requered." Merlin (E. E. T. S.), iii. 501. Now , good angels, preserve the king! ways. Cf. noway .] Same as noway . These are secrets which we can no ways by any strength of thought fathom. Bp . Atterbury , Sermons, II. iii. No word of visitation, as ye love me, And so for now I'le leave ye. Fletcher, Monsieur Thomas, i. 3. From now, from now on, from this time. - Just now. See just1 . Now and again. See again . - Now and nowt, again and again. She swowneth now and now for lakke of blood. Chaucer , Squire's Tale, 1. 422. To wattir hem eke no we and no we eftsones Wol make hem soure. Palladius , Husbondrie (E. E. T. S.), p. 115. Now and then, at one time and another; occasionally; at intervals; here and there. Nowel natal is, of one's birth, Janus sit by the fyr with double berd, And drynketh of his bugle horn the wyn; Biforn hym stant brawn of the tusked swyn, And Nowel crieth every lusty man. Chaucer , Franklin's Tale, L. 527. The first Nowell the Angel did say Was to three poor shepherds in the fields as they lay; In fields where they lay keeping their sheep In a cold winter's night that was so deep. Nowell , Nowell , Nowell , Nowell , Born is the King of Israel. Quoted in N. and Q., 7th ser., III. 291. We have no English Noëls like those of Eustache du Caurroy. Grove's Dict. Music, II. 463. nowel2 (nou'el or nō'el), n. [Var. of newell.] 11. An obsolete form of newel.-2. In found ing, the inner part of the mold for castings of large hollow articles, such as tanks, cisterns, and steam-engine cylinders of large size. It answers to the core of smaller castings. nowhere (nō'hwar), adv. [ They holde of the Venycyans, and I trowe they haue noo where so stronge a place. Sir R. Guylforde , Pylgrymage, p. 11. True pleasure and perfect freedom are nowhere to be found but in the practice of virtue. Til lots on. Though the art of alphabetic writing was known in the east in the time of the Trojan war, it is nowhere mentioned by Homer, who is so exact and full in describing all the arts he knew. Ames , Works, II. 436. Such idea or presentation of sense is nowhere , for it does not exist in any sense of the word whatever. G. T. Ladd , Physiol. Psychology, p. 546. nowhither (no'hwiTH"èr), adv. [ Thy servant went no whither . The turn which leads nowhither . 2 Ki. v. 25. De Quincey. nowise (no'wiz), adv. [By ellipsis from in no wise.] In no way, manner, or degree; in no respect. He will have fifty deviations from a straight line to make with this or that party, as he goes along, which he can no wise avoid. Sterne, Tristram Shandy, i. 14. In whom too was the eye that saw, not dim, The natural force to do the thing he saw, IMG:content-1484.png:[blocks in formation] A band one it or escheue it, if it be noyfull . Sir T. Elyot , The Govern our, i. 24. noyingt, n. [ v .] Annoyance; harm; hurt. And who so euer beryth of the same erthe vppon hym is saffely a uryd fro me noyeng of any beste. Sir R. Guylforde , Pylgrymage, p. 54. noyinglyt, adv . [ME., noying , ppr. of noy , v., +-ly2.] In an annoying manner; annoyingly. I have nought trespa ed ageyn noon of these iij., God knowing, and yet I am foule and noysyngly [read noyyng ly) vexed with hem, to my gret unease. Paston Letters, I. 26. See noil . Those who are noxious in the eye of the law are justly noylet, n. punished by them to whom the execution of the law is committed. Abp . Bramhall, Answer to Hobbes, noymentt, n. [By apheresis from annoy ment.] Annoyance. Arnold , Chron., p. 211. =Syn. 1. Noxious , Pernicious , Noisome , pestiferous, pest i- lent, poisonous, mischievous, corrupting. That which is noyous (noi'us), a. [ noyes ; by noxious is actively and energetically harmful. That which is pernicious is as actively destructive. Noisome and nox ious were once e entially the same (see Job xxx i. 40, margin; Ps. xci. 3; Ezek. xiv. 21), but noisome now suggests primarily foulne of odor, with a secondary no rio us ne to health. Unwholesome vapors that do not offend the sense of smell would now hardly be called noisome. Winds from all quarters agitate the air, And fit the limpid element for use, Else noxious . Cowper , Task, i. Little by little he had indulged in this pernicious habit, O'Donovan, Merv, xxiii. until he had become a confirmed opium eater and smoker. Immediately a place Before his eyes appear'd, sad, noisome , dark; A lazar-house it seem'd. Milton , P. L., xi. 478. noxiously (nok's hus-li), adv . In a noxious manner; hurtfully; perniciously. noxiousne (nok's hus-nes), n. The quality or state of being noxious or hurtful; harmfulne ; perniciousne : as, the noxiousne of foul air. The unlawfulne of their intermeddling in secular af fairs and using civil power, and the noxiousne of their sitting as members in the lords' house, and judges in that high court, etc. Wood , Athenæ Oxon., II. 48.