noverint 
nosccrc, know (see knoii'l) ; vniverxi, noin. pi. of 
niiiirmus, all together.] A writ. 
Yet was not the Father altogether vnlettered, for hee 
had good experience in a Noverint, and, by the vniuersall 
tearruestheirin contained had drluen many Gentlewomen 
to seeke vnknown countries. Greene, Groats-worth of V\ it. 
novice (nov'is), n. and a. [< ME. novice, < OF. 
(and F.) novice (= Sp. novicio = Pg. noviyo = 
It. novizio), m., novice (= Sp. novicia = Pg. no- 
viga = It. novisi/i), f ., a novice, < L. novicius, later 
novitius, new, newly arrived, in ML. as a noun, 
novicius, m., novicia, f., one who has newly en- 
tered a monastery or a convent, < novus, new : 
see novel, new."] I. n. 1. One who is new to 
the circumstances in which he or she is placed ; 
a beginner in anything; an inexperienced or 
untried person. 
To children and novices in religion they [solemn feasts] 
minister the first occasions to ask and inquire of God. 
Booker, Eccles. Polity, v. 71. 
I am young, a novice in the trade. 
Dryden, Pal. and Arc., iii. 325. 
Specifically 2. A monk or nun who has new- 
ly entered one of the orders, and is still in a 
state of probation, subject to the superior of 
the convent and the discipline of the house, 
but bound by no permanent monastic vows ; a 
probationer. The term of probation differs in 
different religious communities, but is regularly 
at least one year. 
Thou art a maister whan thou art at hoom ; 
No poure cloisterer, ne no novys. 
Chaucer, Prol. to Monk's Tale. 
One hundred years ago, 
When I was a novice in this place, 
There was here a monk, full of God's grace. 
Longfellow, Golden Legend, ii. 
II. a. Having the character of a beginner, or 
one new to the practice of anything; inexpe- 
rienced; also, characteristic of or befitting a 
novice. 
These nouice lovers at their first arrive 
Are bashfull both. 
Sylvester, tr. of Du Bartas's Weeks, ii., The Magnificence. 
The wisest, unexperienced, will be ever 
Timorous and loath with novice modesty. 
Hilton, P. R., iii. 241. 
noviceship (nov'is-ship), . [< novice + -ship.'] 
The state of being a novice. [Rare.] 
noviciate, a. and . See novitiate. 
novi homines. Plural of novu-s homo. 
novilantt, See novelant. 
novilunar (no-vi-lu'nar), a. [Cf. LL. noviluiii- 
ui, new moon; < L. novus, new, + Tuna, the 
moon: see new and lunar.'] Pertaining to the 
new moon. [Rare.] 
novitiate, noviciate (no-vish'i-at), a. [< ML. 
"novitiatus, adj., < L. (ML.) novicius, novitius, a 
novice: see novice and -afel.] Inexperienced; 
unpractised. 
I discipline my young noviciate thought 
In ministeries of heart-stirring song. 
Coleridge, Religious Musings. 
At this season the forest along the slowly passing shores 
and isles was in the full burst of spring, when it wears in 
the morning light its most charming aspect, of surpass- 
ing beauty to my novitiate eyes. 
B. 0. Forbes, Eastern Archipelago, p. 11. 
novitiate, noviciate (no-vish'i-at), n. [= F. 
noviciat = Sp. Pg. noviciado = It. noviziato, < 
ML. novitiatus (novitiatu-), a novitiate, < L. 
(ML.) novicius, novitius, a novice: see novice 
and -ate 3 .'} 1. The state or time of being a 
novice; time of initiation ; apprenticeship. 
He must have passed his tirocinium or novitiate in sin- 
ning before he come to this, be he never so quick or pro- 
ficient. South. 
For most men, at all events, even the ablest, a novitiate 
of silence, so to call it, is profitable before they enter on 
the business of life. H. N. Oxenham, Short Studies, p. 77. 
Specifically 2. The period of probation of a 
young monk or nun before finally taking the 
monastic vows. See novice, 2. 
I am he who was the Abbot Boniface at Kennaquhair, 
. . . hunted round to the place in which I served my no- 
viciate. Scott, Abbot, xxxviii. 
3. A novice or probationer. 
The abbess had been informed the night before of all 
that had passed between her noviciate and Father Francis. 
Addison, Spectator, No. 164. 
4. The house or separate building, in connec- 
tion with a convent, in which the novices pass 
their time of probation. 
novitioust (no-vish'us), a. [< L. novicius, novi- 
tius, new, newly arrived: see novice.] Newly 
invented. 
What is now taught by the church of Rome is as [an] 
unwarrantable, so a novitious interpretation. 
Up. Pearson, Expos, of Creed, ix. 
novityt (uov'i-ti), n. [< OF. novite, noviteit = 
Sp. noveilad = Pg. noridade = It. novita, < L. 
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novita(t-)s, newness, novelty, < novus, new : see 
'.] Newness; novelty. 
The novity of the world, and that it had a beginning, is 
another proof of a Deity, and his being author and maker 
of it. Ecelyn, True Religion, I. 57. 
novodamUS (no-vo-da'mus), . [< L. tie novo 
<lnmi/s,we give a grant anew : denovo, anew (see 
de novo) ; damns, 1st pers. pi. pres. ind. of dare, 
give: see date 1 .] In Scots law, & clause sub- 
joined to the dispositive clause in some char- 
ters, whereby the superior, whether the crown 
or a subject, grants de novo (anew) the subjects, 
rights, or privileges therein described. Such a 
charter may be granted where a vassal believes his right 
defective, but, notwithstanding its name, it may also be 
a first grant. Imp. Diet. 
Novo-Zelania (n6"vo-ze-la'ni-a), n. [NL., < E. 
New Zealand.] In zoogeog., a faunal area of the 
earth's land surface coincident in extent with 
the islands of New Zealand. 
Novo-Zelanian (n6"vo-ze-la'ni-an), a. [< NL. 
Novo-Zelania + -an.'] Of or pertaining to New 
Zealand: as, "the Novo-Zelanian provinces," 
Huxley. 
novumt (no'vum), n. See novem. 
nOVUS homo (no'vus ho'mo), n. ; pi. novi homi- 
nes (no'vi hom'i-nez). [L., a new man: see 
new and homo.'] Among the ancient Romans, 
one who had raised himself from obscurity to 
distinction without the aid of family connec- 
tions. 
now (nou), adv. and conj. [< ME. now, nou, nu, 
< AS. nu = OS. OFries. nu = D.nu = MLG. nu 
= OHG. MHG. nu, nu, Gr. nu = Icel. nu = Sw. 
Dan. nu = Goth, n u = Gr. vi< = Skt. nu, nu, now ; 
also, with adverbial addition, MHG. nuon, Gr. 
nun = OBulg. nyne = L. nunc for *nunce (< * 
+ -ce, demonstrative suffix) = Gr. vvv, now. Cf . 
new.'] I. adv. 1 . At the present point of time ; 
at the present time ; at this juncture. 
Nowe this geare beginneth for to frame. 
Udall, Roister Bolster, i. 3. 
Elidure, after many years Imprisonment, is now the third 
time seated on the Throne. Milton, Hist. Eng., i. 
Then, nothing but rushes upon the ground, and every 
thing else mean ; now, all otherwise. 
Pepi/s, Diary, III. 02. 
I have a patient now living at an advanced age, who dis- 
charged blood from his lungs thirty years ago. Arbnthnot. 
The sunny gardens. . . opened their flowers . . . in the 
places now occupied by great warehouses and other mas- 
sive edifices. 0. W. Holmes, Emerson, i. 
2. In these present times ; nowadays. 
Before this worlds great frame, in which al things 
Are now containd, found any being-place. 
Spenser, Hymn of Heavenly Love, 1. 23. 
3. But lately; a little while ago. 
Ay loved be that lufly lorde of his lighte, 
That vs thus mighty has made, that nowe was righte noghte. 
York Plays, p. 8. 
They that but now, for honour and for plate, 
Made the sea blush with blood, resign their hate. 
Waller, Late War with Spain. 
4. At or by that past time (in vivid narration) ; 
at this (or that) particular point in the course 
of events; thereupon; then. 
Now was she just before him as he sat. 
Shak., Venus and Adonis, 1. 349. 
The walls being cleared, these two kindred cavaliers 
now hastened with their forces in pursuit of the seventy 
Moors. Irving, Granada, p. 55. 
5. Things being so ; as the case stands; after 
what has been said or done. 
Being mad before, how doth she now for wits? 
Shak., Venus and Adonis, L 249. 
How shall any man distinguish now betwixt a parasite 
and a man of honour, where hypocrisy and interest look 
so like duty and affection ? Sir R. L' Estrange. 
6. Used as an emphatic expletive in eases of 
command, entreaty, remon strance, and the like : 
as, come, now, stop that! 
"Now, trewly," seide she, "that lady were nothinge wise 
that ther-of yow requered." Merlin (E. E. T. S.), iii. 501. 
Now, good angels, preserve the king ! 
Shalt., Tempest, ii. 1. 306. 
By now, by this time. Every now and then. See 
eeeryl. For now, for the present. 
No word of visitation, as ye love me, 
And so for now I'le leave ye. 
Fletcher, Monsieur Thomas, i. 3. 
From now, from now on, from this time. Just now. 
See jusfl. Now and again. See again. Now and 
nowt, again and again. 
She swowneth now and now for lakke of blood. 
Chaucer, Squire's Tale, 1. 422. 
To wattir hem eke nowe and nmve eftsones 
Wol make hem soure. 
Palladim, Husbondrie (E. E. T. S.), p. 115. 
Now and then, at one time and another ; occasionally ; 
at intervals ; here and there. 
Nowel 
And if a straunger syt neare thee, ener among noil' and than 
Reward thou him with some daynties : shew thy selfe a 
Gentleman. Babees Book (E. E. T. S.), p. 77. 
A mead here, there a heath, and now and then a wood. 
Drayton. 
When I am now and then alone, and look back upon my 
past life, from my earliest infancy to this time, there are 
many faults which 1 committed that did not appear to me, 
even until I myself became a father. 
Steele, Spectator, No. 263. 
Nowaterstt. See at erst (b\ under erst.- Now. . . now, 
at one time ... at another time ; sometimes . . . some- 
times, alternately or successively. 
Now up, now doun, as boket in a welle. 
Chaucer, Knight's Tale, 1. 675. 
Thus like the rage of fire the combat burns, 
And now it rises, now it sinks by turns. 
Pope, Iliad, xviii. 2. 
While the writers of most other European countries have 
had their periods and their schools, when now classic, now 
romantic, now Gallic, and now Gothic influences predomi- 
nated, . . . the literature of England has never submitted 
itself to any such trammels, but has always maintained a 
self-guided, if not a wholly self-inspired existence. 
G. P. Marsh, Hist. Eng. Lang., i. 
[Similarly now . . . then. 
Now weep for him, then spit at him. 
Shak., As you Like it, iii. 2. 437.] 
Now that, seeing that ; since. Till now, until the pres- 
ent time. 
II. conj. 1. A continuative, usually introdu- 
cing an inference from or an explanation of 
what precedes. 
Nowe every worde and sentence hath greet cure. 
Palladirn, Husbondrie (E. E. T. S.), p. 5. 
Not this man, but Barabbas. Now Barabbas was a rob- 
ber. John xviii. 40. 
2. Equivalent to now that, with omission of that. 
Now persones han parceyued that freres parte with hem, 
Thise possessioneres preche and depraue freres. 
Piers Plowman (B), v. 143. 
Why should he live, now Nature bankrupt is? 
SAa*., Sonnets, Ixvii. 
now (nou), n. [< now, adv.'] The present time 
or moment ; this very time. 
Yet thus receiving and returning Bliss, 
In this gret Moment, in this golden Now. 
Prior, Celia to Damon. 
An everlasting Now reigns in nature, which hangs the 
same roses on our btishes which charmed the Roman and 
the Chaldeean in their hanging gardens. 
Emerson, Works and Days, p. 156. 
now (uou), a. [< now, adv.'] Present. [Now 
only colloq.] 
Conduct your mistress into the dining-room, your HOW 
mistress. B. Jonson, Epicoene, ii. 3. 
At the beginning of your now Parliament, the Duke of 
Buckingham, with other his complices, often met and con- 
sulted in a clandestine Way. Hoivell, Letters, I. iii. 29. 
Defects seem as necessary to our now happiness as to 
their opposites. The most refulgent colours are the re- 
sult of light and shadows. 
Glanville, Vanity of Dogmatizing, xxiv. 
nowadays (nou'a-daz), adv. [Formerly now a 
days, < ME. now a dayes, etc. ; < now + adays.J 
In these days ; in the present age : sometimes 
used as a noun. 
Now a dayis 1 lese all that I wanne, 
Where here before I was a threfty man. 
Generydes(E. E. T. 8.), 1. 1133. 
And since the time is such, euen now a dayes, 
As hath great nede of prayers truly prayde, 
Come forth, my priests, and I will bydde your beades. 
Oascoigne, Steele Glas (ed. Arber), p. 74. 
For they now a dayes make no mention of Isaac, as if he 
had neuer beene borne. Pitrcha, Pilgrimage, p. 270. 
If 'tis by God that Kings nowadays reign, 'tis by God too 
that the People assert their own Liberty. 
Milton, Answer to Salmasius. ii. 55. 
Methinks the lays of nowadays 
Are painfully in earnest. 
F. Locker, The Jester's Plea. 
noway (no'wa), adv. [By ellipsis from in no 
//.] In no way, respect, or degree ; not at all. 
Tho' deeply wounded, no-way yet dismay'd. 
Prior, Ode to the Queen, st 8. 
noways (no'waz), adv. [By ellipsis from in no 
ways. Cf. noway.'} Same as noway. 
These are secrets which we can no ways by any strength 
of thought fathom. Bp. Atterbury, Sermons, II. iii. 
nowed (noud), a. [< OF. nou (see nowy), knot, + 
-ed 2 .] In her., tied in a knot: said of a serpent 
used as a bearing, the tail of a heraldic lion, or 
the like. 
Reuben is conceived to bear three bars wave, Judah a lion 
rampant, Dan a serpent nowed. Simeon a sword impale, the 
point erected, &c. Sir T. Browne, Vulg. Err., v. 10. 
Nowel 1 , Noel (no'el), n. [< ME. nowel, nowelle, 
< OF. nowel, nouel, noel, F. noel, the Nativity of 
Christ, Christmas, a Christmas carol, =Sp.n/Z, 
QSp.nadfil = g. natal = It. tiatale, birthday, esp. 
the birthday of Christ, the Nativity, Christmas, 
< ML. natale, a birthday, anniversary, esp. Na- 
titlc Domini, the Nativity of Christ, neut. of L. 
