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NOV'ICE, culj. [from the fubffi. or move properly the 
fubft. itfelf ufed as an adjeftive.] Suitable to a novice : 
The wifelt, unexperienced, will be ever 
Timorous and loath, with novice modefty. Milton. 
NOVICE'SHIP, / The Hate of a novice. Scott. 
NOVI'CIATE, or Novitiate,/ The ftate of a novice ; 
the time in which the rudiments are learned.—This is lo 
great a mafterpiece in fin, that lie mud have palled his ty- 
rocinium or novitiate in finning, before he come to this, be 
he never fo quick a proficient. South. —The time fpent in 
a religious lioufe, by way of trial, before the vow is taken. 
—None were admitted into this order, but after a long 
and laborious noviciate. Burke's Abridg. of Eng. Hifi.— 
The noviciate lalts a year at lead; in foroe hoiifes more. 
It is efteemed the bed of the civil death of a novice, who 
expires to the world by profeffion. Chambers. —The houfe 
or place where novices are inltrufted.—In this fenfe, the 
vQviciatc is frequently a cloifter feparate from the grand 
dormitory. Chambers. — Once ufed by Addifon, impro¬ 
perly, for a novice.—The abbefs had been informed the 
night before of all that had palled between her noviciate 
and father Francis. SpeStator, N° 164. 
NOVIGRAD', a town of Hungary, with a caftle. It 
gives name to a county, but is of no great confequence: 
twelve miles north of Waitzen, and fourteen ealt of Gran. 
NOVIGRAD', a town of Sclavonia: forty-five miles 
north of Kraliovavelika. 
NOVIGRAD', a town of Dalmatia, fituated on a bay 
to which it gives name: fixteen miles north of Scardona. 
Lat. 44.28. N. Ion. 17. 32. E. 
NOVIGUN'GE, a town of Ilindooltan, in Dooab: 
thirty miles weft of Canoge. 
NOVIODU'NUM, in ancient geography, a town of the 
i£dui, commodioully feated on the Liguris: the Nivernum 
of Antonine. Now Nevers, in France, on the Loire.—A 
fecond, of the Aulerci Diablintes, in Gallia Celtica; 
called Noningcntum Rotrudiun by the moderns. Now No- 
gent le Rotrou, capital of the duchy of Perche.-—A third, 
of the Bituriges ; now Nneve Jur Baranion, a village fif¬ 
teen miles to the north of Bourges, towards Orleans.—A 
fourth, of Mcefia Inferior, fituated on the liter; now 
Nivorz, in Beffarabia.—A fifth, of Pannonia Superior; 
now Gurhfeld, in Carinthia.—A fixth, called alfo Novio- 
dunum Sueffwnum, and Angvfta Suejfionnm.- —A feventb, 
of the Veromandui, in Gallia Belgica ; now No,yon, on the 
borders of Picardy, in France. 
NOVIOM'AGUS. See Neomagus, vol. xvi. 
NOVIORE'GUM, in ancient geography, a town of 
Gallia Aquitanic^, between Tamnum and Mediolanum 
Santonum ; twelve miles from the firft, and fifteen from 
the fecond. Now Royon, in France. 
NO'VION, a town of France, in the department of the 
Ardenne : fix miles north of Rethel. 
NOVISEL'LO, a town of Hungary, on the Danube : 
four miles fouth-weft of Bacs. 
NOVI'TA, or Real el Novita, a town of South 
America, capital of a diltrift in the viceroyalty of New 
Grenada, annexed to the province of Ciioco: 160 miles 
north of Popayan, and 140 fouth-fouth-vvell of Santa Fe 
de Antioquia. Lat. 5. 4. N. Ion. 76. 16. W. 
NOVI'TIOUS, adj. [novitius, Lat.] Newly invented.— 
What is now taught by the church of Rome, is, as un¬ 
warrantable, fo a novitious interpretation. Pearfon on the 
Creed, Art. 9. 
NOVI'TO, a river of Naples, which runs into the fea 
fix miles north of Girace. 
NOV'ITY, / [novitas, Lat.] Newnefs; novelty.—Some 
conceive file might not yet be certain that only man was 
privileged with fpeech ; and, being in the novily of the 
creation and unexperience of all things, might not be 
affrighted to hear a ferpent fpeak. Brown.- —It remaineth 
that we ftedfaffly believe, not only that the heavens and 
earth, and all the holt of them, were made, and fo ac¬ 
knowledge a creation, or an adtual and immediate de- 
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pendence of all things on God ; but alfo, that all things 
were created by the hand of God, in the fame manner, 
and at the.fame time, which are delivered unto us in the 
books of Mofes by the Spirit of God ; and fo acknowledge 
a novily, or no long exigence, of the creature. Pearjon on 
the Creed. 
NO'VIUM, the ancient name of Noya in Spain. 
NOUL, or Noll, f. [hnol, Sax. a top, a head ; nol. 
Germ.] The crown or top of the head ; the head itfelf: 
Then came October, full of merry glee ; 
For yet his noule was totty of the mult. Spenfer. 
Softly, quoth thelfeward, it lieth all in thy noil, 
Both wit and wyfdom. Hifi. of Beryn, 1524. 
NOULD, or Ne Would. Would not: 
His enemie 
Had kindled fuch coles of difpleafure, 
That the goodman nould Hay his leafure, 
But home him halted with furious heate. Spenfer. 
NOVLEN'SKOI, a town of Ruffia, in the government 
of Vologda, near the lake Kubenlkoe : thirty-two miles 
north-welt of Vologda. 
NOULLEAU' (John-Baptilt), a French ecclefiaftic, difi- 
tinguifhed by his zealous labours as a preacher, as well as 
his praftical and devotional writings, was defeended from 
a refpeftable family, and bornat St, Brieux in the year 16,04. 
He was inltrufted in grammar-learning at his native place, 
and went through his courfes of rhetoric and philofophy 
at Rennes. Afterwards he ftudied divinity during three 
years in the college of the fathers of the oratory at 
Nantes, and during other three years at the college of 
Navarre. At the age "of twenty, he entered into the fo- 
ciety of the priells of the oratory, where he diftinguilhed 
himfelf by the fanftity and aufterity of his manners, and 
the great zeal with which he performed the functions of 
a mifiionary-preacher. In the year 1639, he was promoted 
to the archdeaconry of St. Brieux ; and, in the following 
year, he was railed to the higher dignity of prebend of 
the fame church. In the year 1641, he officiated as a 
miflionary, with other priefts of the fame congregation, 
in the diocefe of Nicholas de Harlay, bifliop of St. Maloes 5 
and then repaired to Paris, where his pulpit-fervices at- 
trafted much attention in the churches of St. Paul and 
St. Lawrence. He made ufe of the utmofl freedom, as 
well as fervour, in declaiming againfl vice and iniquity 
of every defeription; and appears fometimes to have ex¬ 
cited much relentment by his perfonalities. This feems 
to have been the cafe during the feffions of the dates of 
St. Brieux; where he gave fuch offence to M. Boucheraf, 
afterwards chancellor of France, that he complained of 
his conduct to the bifliop, M. de la Barde. In public, the 
bifhop excufed what he had faid, attributing it to the too 
great warmth of his honeft zeal; but he privately repri¬ 
manded M. Noulleau, who anfwered, that truth was dearer 
to him than life, and proceeded with his accultomed 
energy in preaching againfl whatever he found amifs. In 
1647, he provoked the difpleafure of the bifhop by boldly 
undertaking the defence of the official of his court, whom 
the prelate had too haftily excommunicated. But what 
incenfed that prelate againfl him beyond forgivenefs, was 
his publication, in 1666, of a zealous treatiie in defence 
of the Janlenifl caufe, entitled “ Chriftian and Ecclefiaf- 
tical Politics, addrefied to the Members of the General 
Afiembly of the Clergy in 1665 and 1666,” i2ino. Soon 
after the appearance of this work, the bifhop interdicted 
him from entering the pulpit; againfl whofe fentence he 
entered an inefFeftual appeal. He now had recourfe to 
the prefs a fecond time, in defence of himfelf and caufe, by 
pubiifhing a “ Treatiie on the Neceffity for Conferences, 
and mutual Communications, among Ecclefialtics, of the 
Refuit of their Studies,” Sec. Being, by the interdift of 
his bifhop, prohibited from preaching in the churches, he 
ventured to preach in the llreets and public places, till 
M. de la Barde at length prohibited him from exercifing 
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