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Definition of Novices
Novice Novice Nov"ice, a.
Like a novice; becoming a novice. [Obs.]
Novice Novice Nov"ice, n. [F., from L. novicius, novitius, new, from
novus new. See New, and cf. Novitious.]
1. One who is new in any business, profession, or calling;
one unacquainted or unskilled; one yet in the rudiments; a
beginner; a tyro.
I am young; a novice in the trade. --Dryden.
2. One newly received into the church, or one newly converted
to the Christian faith. --1 Tim. iii. 6.
3. (Eccl.) One who enters a religious house, whether of monks
or nuns, as a probationist. --Shipley.
No poore cloisterer, nor no novys. --Chaucer.
