From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:
Novice \Nov"ice\, a.
Like a novice; becoming a novice. [Obs.]
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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:
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.
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I am young; a novice in the trade. --Dryden.
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2. One newly received into the church, or one newly converted
to the Christian faith. --1 Tim. iii. 6.
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3. (Eccl.) One who enters a religious house, whether of monks
or nuns, as a probationist. --Shipley.
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No poore cloisterer, nor no novys. --Chaucer.
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