novelette (novelet)

[ The cla ical translations and Italian novelettes of the age of Elizabeth. J. R. Green. 2. In music, an instrumental piece of a free and romantic character, in which many themes are treated with more or le capricious variety; a romance or ballade. The term was first used by Schumann. novelismt (nov'el-izm), n. [ The other three [positions] are disciplinarian in the present way of novellism . Sir E. Dering , Speeches, p. 44. novelist (nov'el-ist), n. [= F. nouvelliste , a newsmonger, quidnune, = Sp. novelist a = Pg. It. novel list a , a novelist (def. 3); as novel + -ist.] 11. An innovator; a promoter of novelty. Telesius, who hath renewed the philosophy of Par me nides, is the best of novelists. Bacon , Nat. Hist., § 69. IMG:content-1482.png:[blocks in formation] 2. Unaccustomed ne ; strangene ; novel or unusual character or appearance: as, the nor elty of one's surroundings. Novelty is only in request; and it is as dangerous to be aged in any kind of course, as it is virtuous to be constant in any undertaking. Shak., M. for M., iii. 2. 237. In fashion, Novelty is supreme;... the greater the novelty the greater the pleasure. A. Bain , Emotions and Will, p. 45. 3. Something new or strange; a novel thing: as, to hunt after novelties . Welcome, Porter! what novelte Telle vs this owre? York Plays , p. 205. What's the news? The town was never empty of some novelty . Fletcher (and another ), Noble Gentleman, i. 2. I must needs confe it [Paris] to be one of the most Beautiful and Magnific ant[cities] in Europe, and in which a Traveller might find Novelties enough for 6 Months for daily Entertainment. Lister, Journey to Paris, p. 5. Especially-4. A new article of trade; an article of novel design or new use. [Trade use.] -5. An innovation. II. n.; pl. novenaries (-riz). An aggregate of nine; nine collectively. He implieth climacterical years, that is septenaries, and novenaries set down by the bare observation of numbers. nov end i alt (nō-ven'di-al), a. [L. nov end i a lis, of nine days, Sir T. Browne, Vulg. Err., iv. 11. The triple and novene division ran throughout. Milman . novennial (nō-ven'i-al), a . [ novennis , of nine years, novem , nine, + ann us , a year: see annual .] Done or recurring every ninth year. A novennial festival celebrated by the Bœotians in honour of Apollo. Abp. Potter, Antiquities of Greece, ii. 20.