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.
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Nov"ice, a.
Like a novice; becoming a novice.
[Obs.]
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