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Webster 1913 Edition
Novice
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.
Nov′ice
,Adj.
Like a novice; becoming a novice.
[Obs.]
Webster 1828 Edition
Novice
NOV'ICE
,Noun.
1.
One who is new in any business; one unacquainted or unskilled; one in the rudiments; a beginner.I am young, a novice in the trade.
2.
One that has entered a religious house but has not taken the vow; a probationer.3.
One newly planted in the church, or one newly converted to the Christian faith. 1 Timothy 3.