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novice
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Novice \Nov"ice\, n. [F., from L. novicius, novitius, new, from novus new. See New, and cf. Novitious.]
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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.-
(Eccl.) 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. Like a novice; becoming a novice. [Obs.]
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
mid-14c., "probationer in a religious order," from Old French novice "beginner" (12c.), from Medieval Latin novicius, noun use of Latin novicius "newly imported, newly arrived, inexperienced" (of slaves), from novus "new" (see new). Meaning "inexperienced person" is attested from early 15c.
Wiktionary
n. 1 A beginner; one who is not very familiar or experienced in a particular subject. (from 14th c.) 2 (senseid en religious)(context religion English) A new member of a religious order accepted on a conditional basis, prior to confirmation. (from 14th c.)
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Housing Units (2000): 65
Land area (2000): 0.451929 sq. miles (1.170491 sq. km)
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Total area (2000): 0.451929 sq. miles (1.170491 sq. km)
FIPS code: 52668
Located within: Texas (TX), FIPS 48
Location: 31.988664 N, 99.625334 W
ZIP Codes (1990): 79538
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Wikipedia
A novice is a person or creature who is new to a field or activity.
Novice is the seventh studio album by French rocker Alain Bashung, issued in 1989 on Barclay Records.
A novice in National Hunt horse racing is a horse which has not won in a particular type of race prior to the start of the current season. A novice hurdler has not won a hurdle race before the start of the current season, while a novice chaser has not won a steeplechase before the start of the current season.
A novice remains a novice until the end of the season in which it gains its first win in that particular category, no matter how many wins it achieves. Generally novices race against other novices although there is no restriction preventing novices competing against more experienced rivals. Occasionally a novice wins a major race outside novice company - Captain Christy and Coneygree both won the Cheltenham Gold Cup in 1974 and 2015 respectively as novices, as did Make A Stand in the 1997 Champion Hurdle.
A modern development has seen a concession whereby horses that record their first win in a given sphere in March or April may contest novice events up to 31st October of that year.
A novice is an inexperienced person or creature. It may also refer to:
- Novice (racehorse), a class of horse in National Hunt racing
- Novice, Texas, a small community
- Novice Independent School District, Texas
- Novice Gail Fawcett (1909–1998), eighth president of Ohio State University
- The Novice, a fantasy novel by Trudi Canavan
- Novice Hame, a Dr. Who fictional character
- a French naval rank
- Kmetijske in rokodelske novice ("Agricultural and Artisan News"), shortly referred to as Novice ("News"), a Slovene newspaper from the 19th century
- Novice (album), a 1989 album by French rocker Alain Bashung.
- The Novice, a 1840 poem by Mikhail Lermontov
Usage examples of "novice".
I saw that the Astrodi was in a fair way to become intolerable, so I begged her to moderate her transports, because as a novice at these parties I wanted to get accustomed to them by degrees.
The three men tramped stolidly along, the two novices imitating as best they could the angular gait, as of one who rarely stretched his legs, and the blindish carriage of the charcoal-burner.
The charming novice felt herself sprinkled, but after ascertaining that nothing more could be done she withdrew in some vexation.
The other novices were off with Cyme and Phoebe, searching for Goddess Pride.
She saw Dap coming to see her at the rigger school, he the senior, she the novice.
This invitation set him thinking, for he had never seen Venice, never frequented good company, and yet he did not wish to appear a novice in anything.
Newlings were novices in the Elderhood, recent arrivals in Cluster One.
As the novices, who followed in the rear, moved slowly from the chapel, Enrico observed them with peculiar attention, endeavouring to discover Madame Chamont, but without success.
There were many doors and many novices enwombed safely within their cells, lying blindly and deafly as bodies in a prayer ship.
For days, I could not skate down the most out-of-the-way gliddery without some novice tugging on the sleeve of a schoolmate and pointing at me in awe.
She seemed as if she wanted to dictate to everybody around her, and she very likely thought that she had the right to do so at the age of sixty, particularly towards a young novice only twenty-five years old, who had not yet contributed anything to the literary treasury.
I was a, novice in Paris, and I had not been accustomed to see women encroach upon the privilege which men alone generally enjoy.
I had proclaimed myself as a novice in the mimic art, and had entreated my lame friend to be kind enough to instruct me.
The princess might kiss her as much as she pleased, but the novice had not the courage to return her kisses.
My one ride, a novice hurdler revoltingly called Neddikins, had no chance of winning.