NOU 
over his benefices, till two months before the expiration of 
his year of ober and he may even relume them, if the 
profeffion be 
A novice is ne allowed to make ap aero to his fupe- 
rior, by reafon of the dependence he is under.——Novices may 
pricy quit the _ comme dete eens or may be 
turned off A: the co 
NOVI TE, 4 a ye : Lear appointed for the 
trial of religion Ww they have a vocation, and 
the neceflary aeaics (a ae ae to the rule ; = obferva- 
tion whereo - they are to bind themfelves to by vo 
The noviciate lafts a year at leaft; in fome feces more. 
It is heed the bed of the civil death of a novice, who 
expires to the world by profeffion 
ovictATE is alfo ufed for the ‘piles or places where no- 
vices are inftruéted. 
In this fenfe the noviciate is frequently a cloifter feparate 
from the ty dornsitor 
IGRAD, in Geography a townof Hungary, with 
a_caftle, which gives name to a county; 14 miles E. of ci 
G 
ran.—Alfo, a town of Sclavonia, 45 miles N. of Kraliv- 
vavelika. —Alfo, a town of Dalmatia, fituated on a bay to 
which it gives name 5 16 miles N. of Scardona. N. lat. 44° 
28'. E. long. 17° 32 
eh ce alow of Hindooftan, in Dooab; 30 
miles W. of Can 
'NOVIODUNUM, in Ancient Geography, a to 
of lt 
er Meefia, at the place | where the D anube lepats into 
ZEgifon, on miles from the former, and 28 fro 
—Alfo, a town of Pannonia, upon the route fon 4Emona 
to Sirraium, between Pretorium Latovicorum and Qua- 
pale aa one mile from the firft, and 28 miles from the fe 
ond. 
"NovioMacus, Lizieux, a tewn of Gaul, in the 
It was the capital of the Lexovii, from 
place contains 1039) and the canton 11 2243 inhabitants, on 
a ee of 222% kiliometres, in 31 co 
NOVIOREGUM, Royay, in ye Geography, a 
town of Gallia Aquitanica, between Tamnum and Medio- 
lanum Santonum, 12 miles from the firft, and 1 e from the 
fecond. Antom Itin. 
NOVISILLO, = pote: raphy, atown of Hungary, on 
the Danube ; four ¢ p We bare oe 
NOVITA, or Rul Ni New town of South Ame- 
rica, capital of a diftri€t in x eseaiy of New Gre- 
nada, annexed to the province e of Choco; 160 miles N. of 
Popayan. N. lat. 5° 4’. W. long. 76° 16'. 
NOVLENSKOI, a town of Ruffia, in the government 
of Vologda, near ane lake Kubenfkoe; 32 miles N.W. o 
Vologda. 
NOUN, Nomen, in Grammar, a name or word which 
expreffes the fubjeét fpoken of; or expreffes a fubje& of 
which fomething is, or may he affirmed; as man, food, 
bg ise Henry, &c. 
A noun, eon, | in ee an{wers to an idea in 
et there 
u e ye ~ re 
Thus, befides the particolaraa name which oak nelei bears, 
NOV 
and by which others denote him, he ph himfelf another 
when he {peaks of himfelf, as 7, or my/felf. 
It is only the more particular names sie in grammar have 
retained as vals of nouns; the more gereral ones are 
called pr Eta 
ace » are to a viewed. in another ight, VIZ. as 
divided i si on fi ubftantive, and nouns adjeéii 
They are called Subflantives, when the ma ‘they defign 
are canard fimply in themfelves, and without any regard 
to their qualities. 
They are called adjedives, when their objetts are confidered 
as clothed with “7 ties. 
But, in effect, the objec is alone defigned by the nouns 
fubftantives; which, in this view, are alone the proper 
nouns. 
8s nature is to 
if that ane happen to 
r firft 
ives. 
t is true, that in the common ufe of grammar, many 
nouns, that are really adje@tives, are not reckoned as fuch ; 
none being efteemed adje€tives but thofe which, without any, 
or at leaft any confiderable change in their inflexion and ter- 
mination, are joined indifferently to nouns fubftantives of dif- 
ferent genders. 
Nouns are again divided into proper and appellative. 
Nouns proper are thofe which exprefs a particular thing or 
perfon, fo as to diftinguifh it from all other things of the 
fame ene a8 Socrates. 
Nou 
the rae ead: as man, , angel, 
Nouns heterogeneous, are fach are of one gender in ie 
— number, and of another in aoe plural. See Here 
ROCLY 
NOVO Mircorop, in Geography, a town of Ruffia, ia 
the government of aterinoflav 5 — miles W.N.W. of 
kateriuoflav. at. 48° ong. 21° 44!. 
R, a town of ‘Hungary, four miles N. of 
Cfakathur 
NOVOGRIGOREVSKOE, a town of Ruffia, in the 
government of ‘Ekaterinoflav; 72 miles N.W. cf Cherfon 
alatinate of the fam 
Ruffia,” fituated on a hill, not large, but fling feveral 
Ruffian and Popifh convents. Befides a provincial elect, and 
inferior court of judicature, a high tribunal, like that of 
Wilna, j is held alternately here and at Minfk, which a 
fitting for five cae haven years ; 68 miles E. of Gro 
N. lat. 53° 33’ ong. 
NOVOI, a ‘mal Med 7 in the Cafpian fea; N. ie, 44° 
go’. E. long. 51° 54’. 
NOVOMIASTO, a ats Gs Poland, in the palatinate 
of Rava; 20 miles § 
NOVOMOSKOVSK, a ae of Ruffia, in the govern- 
ment of Eka: es on Aad ; 16 m iles N. of 
Ekaterinoflav. N. lat. 48°- ao E. long. 35° 
NOVOMST, 
