Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary · 1913

Novice

Novice , noun

[French, from Latin novicius, novitius, new, from novus new. See New, and compare Novitious.]

1.
One who is new in any business, profession, or calling; one unacquainted or unskilled; one yet in the rudiments; a beginner; a tyro.
I am young; a novice in the trade. — Dryden
2.
One newly received into the church, or one newly converted to the Christian faith. — 1 Tim. iii. 6
3.
(Ecclesiastical) One who enters a religious house, whether of monks or nuns, as a probationist. — Shipley
No poore cloisterer, nor no novys. — Chaucer

Novice , adjective

Like a novice; becoming a novice. [Obsolete]