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Definition of Novices
1. novice [n] - See also: novice
Lexicographical Neighbors of Novices
Literary usage of Novices
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Catholic Encyclopedia: An International Work of Reference on the by Edward Aloysius Pace, Charles George Herbermann (1922)
"Furthermore lay-brother novices must have a place apart for themselves. novices must
wear the habit prescribed by the constitutions of the institute, ..."
2. The Gospel of Buddha According to Old Records by Paul Carus (1894)
"PRECEPTS FOR THE novices. The novices of the order came to Buddha and asked him
... 8 " The ten precepts prescribed to novices are : abstinence from ..."
3. Scenes and Characters of the Middle Ages by Edward Lewes Cutts (1872)
"Scions of noble houses were not infrequently entered at an early age as novices,
either devoted to the religious life by the piety of their parents, or, ..."
4. The Victor Book of the Opera: Stories of One Hundred Operas with Five by Samuel Holland Rous, Victor Talking Machine Company (1912)
"When the procession departs the novices attack Kuna'ry, calling her a sorceress,
but she is defended by Gurnemanz, who says she is devoted to the King but ..."
5. Buddhist Legends by Buddhaghoṣa (1921)
"Stories of seven-year-old novices. One of the finest groups of stories in the
collection is a group of six stories relating to seven-year- old novices. ..."
6. The Belief in Immortality and the Worship of the Dead by James George Frazer (1913)
"The mock But if the end of the initiation is a mock resurrection, or death of
rather new birth, as it certainly seems to be, we may infer the novices ' J ..."
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