Category:Novice

Nov"ice, n. Etym: [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.)

Defn: one who enters a religious house, whether of monks or nuns, as A probationist. Shipley. No poore cloisterer, nor no novys. Chaucer.

Novice Nov"ice, a.

Defn: like a novice; becoming a novice. [obs.]