noviciate

Close to this, at the end of the street which runs parallel with S. Michele, is the Church of S. Francesco a Ripa, the noviciate of the Franciscans—"Frati Minori."

From Walks in Rome by Augustus J. C. Hare

Escaping from the English army, he joined the French service, and again fleeing, he entered a French monastery, remaining there until he had passed his noviciate.

From Curiosities of Impecuniosity by H. G. Somerville

She was summoned to Rome, and, after three years' noviciate at the Sacramentarie, she was permitted, in 1862, to return to Monza, and to begin her community, fifteen nuns being clothed at the same time.

From Story of My Life, volumes 1-3 by Augustus J. C. Hare

My official duties, the mere entrance into office, occupied me laboriously for a while, and I felt all the habitual difficulties of my noviciate.

From Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine — Volume 57, No. 351, January 1845 by Various

Even the two years of noviciate mainly contributed to the same purpose.

From The New Conspiracy Against the Jesuits Detected and Briefly Exposed with a short account of their institute; and observations on the danger of systems of education independent of religion by R. C. (Robert Charles) Dallas