novel 
Count!''. Uliiit ! p. i-.uit purchase lordships? 
Jun. Is tluit ;my n"<->-l*, air'.' 
11. Joiunin, Case is Altered, v. 4. 
You louk "pri^'tltly. friell'l. 
Aiul pi '.mi < in \ ,,ni rirar aspect some novel 
That may delight us. 
1 i real Duke of Florence, i. 2. 
8. In i-ii'il l<in\ a ni'w or supplemental consti- 
tution or <lre rn : one of I he novel constitutions 
of certain Koinim emperors, so called because 
tin > appeared after the authentic publications 
of law made by those emperors. Those at Justin- 
ian (A. i). ,v.!7-<!. r >) are the bust-known, and are commonly 
understood when the term ia used. The Novel*, together 
with the Institute, Code, and LHyett, form the body of law 
which passes under the name of Justinian. Also novella. 
By the civil law, no one was to be ordained a presbyter 
till he was thirty -five years of age ; though by alaternooef 
It was siilnVifiit if hu was above thirty. Ayli/e. 
The famous decision which Olanville quotes about legiti- 
mation is 1'inliuilied in what then was an Extravagant of 
Alexander III., delivered to the bishop of Exeter In 1172, 
founded no doubt on a Novel of Justinian, but not till now 
distinctly made a part of church law. 
Stublif, Medieval and Modern Hist., p. 806. 
4. A fictitious prose narrative or tale, involv- 
ing some plot of more or less intricacy, and aim- 
ing to present a picture of real life in the his- 
torical period and society to which the persons, 
manners, and modes of speech, as well as the 
scenery and surroundings, are supposed to be- 
long. Its method is dramatic, and the novel may be re- 
garded as a narrative play to the extent that the various 
persons or characters, upon whose qualities and actions 
the development and consummation of the plot or motive 
depend, are brought upon the scene to play their several 
parts according to their different personalities, disclosing, 
with the aid of the author's delineation and analysis, di- 
verse aspects of passion and purpose, and contributing 
their various parts to the machinery of the drama to be 
enacted among them. The novel may be regarded as rep- 
resenting the third stage of transition in the evolution of 
fictitious narrative, of which the epic was the first and 
the romance the second. The novel in its most recent form 
may be divided, according to its dominant theme or mo- 
tive, into the philosophical, the political, the historical, 
the descriptive, the social, and the sentimental novel; to 
which may be added, as special forms, the novel of adven- 
ture, the novel of society, the novel of character, the novel 
of criticism and satire, the novel of reform, and the mili- 
tary, the nautical, and the sporting novel. 
Our Amours can't furnish out a Romance ; they'll make a 
very pretty Novel. Steele, Tender Husband, iv. 1. 
The novel what we call the novel Is a new invention. 
It is customary to date the first English novel with Rich- 
ardson in 1740. 5. Lunii't, The English Novel, p. :i. 
Dime novel. See dime. Novels (or Novellas) of Jus- 
tinian. See def. 3. =Syn. 4. Tale, Romance, Novel. Tale 
was at one time a favorite word for what would now be 
called a novel, as the tales of Miss Austen, and it is still 
used for a fiction whose chief interest lies in its events, as 
Marryat's sea tales. "Works of fiction may be divided 
into romances and novels. . . . The romance chooses the 
characters from remote, unfamiliar quarters, gives them a 
fanciful elevation in power and prowess, surrounds them by 
novel circumstances, verges on the supernatural or passes 
its limits, and makes much of fictitious sentiments, such 
as those which characterized chivalry. The poor sensa- 
tional novel has points of close union with the earlier ro- 
mance. . . . The novel, so far as it adheres to truth, and 
treats of life broadly, descending to the lowest in grade, 
deeply and with spiritual forecast, seeing to the bottom, is 
not only not open to these objections, but rather calls for 
. . . commendation." (J. Bascom, Phil. Eng. Lit., p. 271.) 
novelantt (uov'el-ant), . [< novel + -aut.] A 
recorder of recent or current events. Also nov- 
ilnni. 
Our news is but small, our nouvettants being out of the 
way. Court and Times of Charles 1., I. 214. 
novelert, novellert (nov'el-er), n. [< novel + 
-er 1 .] 1. Aninnovator; a dealer in new things. 
They ought to keep that day which these novellen teach 
us to contemn. /;//. Halt, Remains, p. 303. 
2. A novelist or writer of novels. 
novelet (nov'el-et), H. [< OF. "novelet, nouve- 
let, new, dim. of novel, new : see novel. Cf . novel- 
ette.] If. A small new book. G. Harvey. 2. 
Same as novelcl/i: 
novelette (uov-el-ef), H. [< novel + -ette. Cf. 
tinrcli't.] 1. A short novel. 
The classical translations and Italian novelettes of the age 
of Elizabeth. J. It. Green. 
2. In mimic, an instrumental piece of a free and 
romantic character, in which many themes are 
treated with more or less capricious variety; a 
romance or ballade. The term was first used 
by Schumann. 
novelismt (nov'el-izm), . [< novel 4- -ism.'] 
Innovation; novelty; preference for novelty. 
The other three (positions! are disciplinarian in the pres- 
ent way of itofellitm. Sir E. Dering. Speeches, p. 44. 
novelist (nov'el-ist), n. [= F. nouvelliste, a 
newsmonger, quidnunc, = Sp. novelista = Pg. 
It. norellislu, a novelist (def. 3) ; as novel + -is*.] 
If. An innovator; a promoter of novelty. 
Telesius, who hath renewed the philosophy of Parme- 
r.ides, . . . is the best of novelist*. Bacon, Nat. Hist. ,09. 
4031 
2t. A writer of news. 
The novfluts have, for the better spinning out of para- 
graphs, and working down to the end of their columns, a 
most happy art of saying and unsay ing, giving hinU of in- 
telligence, and Interpretations of different actions. 
Steele, Taller, No. 178. 
3. A writer of novels. 
The best stories of the early and original Italian wivelitti 
. . . appeared In an English dress before the close of the 
reign of Elizabeth. 
T. Warton, Hist. Eng. Poetry, HI. 487. 
Ye writers of what none with safety reads, 
Footing it In the dance that Fancy leads ; 
Ye novelists, who mar what ye would mend. 
Cowper, Frog, of Err., 1. 306. 
4t. A novice. 
There is nothing so easle that doth not hurt and hinder 
us. If we be but novelists therein. 
Lennartt, Of Wisdome, a 7. 1 18. (Encyc. Diet.) 
novelistic (nov-el-is'tik), a. [< novelist + -ic.] 
Pertaining to, consisting of, or fouud in novels 
or fictitious narratives. 
It Is manifestly improbable that in all this galaxy of nm- 
elistic talent there should be no genius. 
Contemporary Rev., LI. 663. 
Will the future historian of the tuictlistic literature of 
the nineteenth century cease his study with a review of the 
author of "Romola" and "Middlemarch"? 
Fortnightly Rn., N. S., XXXIX. 771. 
novelize (nov'el-iz), v. ; pret. and pp. novelized, 
ppr. novelising. [< novel + -tee.] I. trans. If. 
To change by introducing novelties ; bring into 
a new or novel condition. 
How affections do stand to be novelized by the mutabil- 
ity of the present times. Sir E. Dering, Speeches, p. 44. 
2. To put into the form of a novel. 
The desperate attempt to novelue history. 
Sir J. Hertchel. 
II. intrant. To innovate ; cultivate novelty ; 
seek new things. 
The novelizing spirit of man lives by variety and the new 
faces of things. Sir T. Browne, Christ Mor., L 28. 
novella (no-vel'a), H.; pi. novella? (-e). [LL. : 
seenoeeZ.] An imperial ordinance. See novel, 3. 
novelly (nov'el-li), adv. In a novel manner, or 
by a new method. 
A peculiar phase of hereditary insanity, which in Eu- 
rope has always been considered incurable, but which I 
had treated novelty and successfully in the East. 
Scribner't Mag., IV. 744. 
novelryt (nov'el-ri), n. [< ME. norelrie, novel- 
lerie, \ OF. novelerie, AF. novelrie, novelty, a 
quarrel, < novel, novel: see novel.] 1. Novelty; 
new things. 
Ther was a knygt that loved novclrye, 
As many one haunte now that folye. 
MS. Hart. 1701, f. 23. (IfalKu-cll.) 
Eyther they [husbands] ben ful of jalousie, 
Or maysterful, or loven novelrie. 
Chaucer, Troilus, ii. 756. 
2. A quarrel. 
Mo dlscordes and mo jelousies. 
Mo mnrmures and mo novelriet. 
Chaucer, House of Fame, I. 686. 
noveltet, . A Middle English form of novelty. 
novelty (nov'el-ti), .; pi. novelties (-tiz). [< 
ME. novelte, < OF. novelete, noveliteit, nouvelle- 
tee, nouveaute, F. nouveauti = Pr. novcletat, 
noeletat, < LL. novellita(t-)s, newness, novelty, 
< L. novellas, new : see novel."] 1. The quality 
of being novel; newness; freshness; recent- 
ness of origin or introduction. 
Novelty is the great parent of pleasure. South. 
Scenes must be beautiful which, daily view'd, 
Please daily, and whose novelty survives 
Long knowledge and the scrutiny of years. 
Cowper, Task, L 178. 
2. Unaccustomedness ; strangeness; novel or 
unusual character or appearance : as, the nov- 
elty of one's surroundings. 
Novelty is only in request ; and it Is as dangerous to be 
aged In any kind of course, as it is virtuous to be constant 
in any undertaking. Shale., M. for M., iii. 2. i)7. 
In fashion, ffovelty Is supreme; . . . the greater the 
novelty the greater the pleasure. 
A. Bain, Emotions and Will, p. 45. 
3. Something new or strange; a novel thing: 
as, to hunt after novelties. 
Welcome, Porter ! what novelte 
Tellers this owre? 
York Plays, p. 206. 
What's the news? 
The town was never empty of some norelty. 
Fletcher (and another). Noble Gentleman, 1. 2. 
I must needs confess it [Paris) to be one of the most 
Beantifuland Magnincant[cities|iii Europe, and in which a 
Traveller might find Novelties enough for 6 Months for 
daily Entertainment. Lister, Journey to Paris, p. .">. 
Especially 4. A new article of trade; an ar- 
ticle of novel design or new use. [Trade use.] 
5. An innovation. 
noverlnt 
Printed bookes he contemnes, as a lumelty of this latter 
age. HI*. Karle, Mlcro-cosmographie, An Antiquary. 
6. Iii patent law, the quality of being sub- 
-iai it ialiy different from any previous invention, 
novelwnght (nov'el-rit), n. A novelist; a 
manufacturer of novels. Carlylc. [Contemptu- 
OU.] 
novemt (no'vem), n. [Also nor urn , < L. nttrtm, 
nine : see nine.] An old game at dice played by 
five or six persons, in which the two principal 
throws were nine and five. 
The pedant, the braggart, the hedge-priest, the fool, and 
the boy: 
Abate throw at novum, and the whole world again 
Cannot pick out five such. Shot., L. L. L., T. 2. 647. 
November (n^-vem'b^r), n. [< ME. November, 
< OF. (and F.) Kovembre = 8p. Noviemttre = Pg. 
\iiri-mbro = It. Jfovembre = D. G. 8w. Dan. 
\ni-i-mii-r = Gr. tiol/iflptof,, < L. Koventber, also 
fn'ovembris (sc. menms, month), the ninth month 
(sc. from March), < noveni, nine : see nine.] The 
eleventh mouth of the year, containing 30 days. 
Abbreviated .Yer. 
Novemberish (no-vem'ber-ish), a. [< Xovem- 
bcr + -IN//I.] Like or characteristic of Novem- 
ber: as, a Novemberinh day. 
November-moth (no-vem ber-mdth), . A Brit- 
ish moth, Opornbin tliluttita. 
Noyempennatae (no'vem-pe-na'te), n. pi. 
[NL.: see novempennate.] In Sundevall's sys- 
tem of classification: (a) A gjroup of dentiros- 
trul osciue passerine birds with only nine pri- 
maries (whence the name), forming the second 
phalanx of the cohort Ciclilomoriihtr, and includ- 
ing the pipits and wagtails (itatacilliila.'), the 
American warblers (Mniotiltiila'), and the Aus- 
tralian diamond-birds ( Panlalotus). (6) A group 
of cultrirostral oscine passerine birds, com- 
posed of (he American grackles: equivalent to 
the family Icteridte of other authors. 
novempennate (no-vem-pen'at), a. [< L. no- 
vem, nine, + penna, feather.] In ornith., hav- 
ing nine primaries upon the manus or pinion- 
bone. The large flight feathers or remixes of a bird 
which pertain to the mantis are generally either nine or 
ten in number, and this difference of one feather marks 
many of the families of the order Paaeres. 
novena (np-ve'na), . [ML., neut. pi. of L. 
novema, nine each: see npt-fne.] In tne Bom. 
Cath. Cli., a devotion consisting of prayers said 
during nine consecutive days, for the purpose 
of obtaining, through the intercession of the 
Virgin or of the particular saint to whom the 
prayers are addressed, some special blessing or 
mercy. Also called by the French name new- 
rainc. 
novenary (nov'e-na-ri), a. and . [< L. nove- 
narius, consisting of nine, < novenus, nine each : 
see novene.'] I. a. Pertaining to the number 
nine. 
H. n.; pi. novenaries (-riz). An aggregate 
of nine ; nine collectively. 
He implleth climacterlcal years, that Is septenartea, and 
novenaries set down by the bare observation of numbers. 
Sir T. Browne, Vulg. Err., iv. 11. 
noyendialt (no-ven'di-al), a. [< L. norendialis, 
of nine days,'< norem,"nine, + dies, day: see 
nine and dial.] Lasting nine days; occurring 
on the ninth day: as, a novendial holiday. 
novene (no-ven ), a. [< L. norenvs, nine each, 
nine, < novem, nine : see nine.'] Relating to or 
depending on the number nine; proceeding by 
nines. 
The triple and novene division ran throughout. Milman. 
novennial (no-ven'i-al), a. [< LL. novennis, of 
nine years, < L. novein, nine, + tinnux, a year: 
see minimi.] Done or recurring every ninth 
year. 
A novennial festival celebrated by the Boeotians In hon- 
our of Apollo. Abp. Patter, Antiquities of Greece, ii. 20. 
novercal (no-ver'kal), a. [< LL. norercalig, per- 
taining to a stepmother, < L. noverea, a step- 
mother, lit. a ' new' mother (=Gr. as if "vtapudi, 
< reaper, new, + -t-xfi, L. -i-co: see -iV), < norus 
(= Gr. vfor), new: see new.'] Pertaining to a 
stepmother; suitable to a stepmother; step- 
motherly. 
When almost the whole tribe of birds do thus by incu- 
bation produce their young, it Is a wonderful deviation 
that some few families only should do It In a more nover- 
cal way. Dcrham, Physlco- Theology, vii. 4. 
The doited crone. 
.Slow to acknowledge, curtsey, and abdicate, 
Was recognized of true noaercal type, 
Dragon and devil. Brotrnina, Ring and Book, I. 66. 
noverint (nov'e-rint), ii. [So called as begin- 
nine; \vitli the words noreriut univtrxi, 'let u'l 
men know': novcrint, 3d pers. pi. perf. subj. of 
