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.
One newly received into the church, or one newly converted to the Christian faith. 1 Tim. iii. 6.
One who enters a religious house, whether of monks or nuns, as a probationist. Shipley. No poore cloisterer, nor no novys. Chaucer.
Like a novice; becoming a novice. [Obs.]
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