ˈnoviceship
Also 8 noviship.
[f. novice.]
1. = noviciate 1.
| 1639 S. Du Verger tr. Camus' Admir. Events 266 Beeing as yet but in the beginning of his Noviceship. 1677 Lond. Gaz. No. 1247/1 Having passed his Noviceship, he celebrated High Mass on Friday last. 1763 Brit. Mag. IV. 467 Her year of noviceship was now expired. 1845 G. Oliver Biogr. Soc. Jesus 97, I cannot discover where he made his noviceship. 1887 Stanton Menology Eng. & Wales 45 He..went to St. Omers to begin his noviceship with the Jesuits. |
| attrib. 1716 M. Davies Athen. Brit. III. Diss. Dram. 38 After..the Noviship-Exercises or Trials of the..Sincerity of his Christian Pretensions. |
b. Initial stages; inexperience.
rare.
| 1703 Savage Lett. Antients ii. 10 You (yet in the very Noviceship of your Youth, tho robust and old in the Virtue of Faith). 1748 Richardson Clarissa (1811) V. 297 If giddy fellows, or giddy girls, misbehave in a first marriage..from noviceship. |
2. A Jesuit college where novices are trained.
| 1620 E. Blount Horæ Subs. 380 That Garden of Cardinall Bandinoes, by the Nouiceship of the Iesuites. 1629 Wadsworth Pilgr. vii. 74 The Iesuites haue a Colledge at Watton,..which they call their Nouiship for the nurturing of their young Iesuites. 1889 Pall Mall G. 10 July 21/1 Their cadets' training homes remind me of nothing so much as our noviceships. |