noviciate

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He passed his noviciate in prayer, and mortification, and pious reading, and meditation.

From The Cloister and the Hearth A Tale of the Middle Ages by Reade, Charles

Hence a universal Pythagorean noviciate would, sooner or later, give rise to epidemics, and Chartreuses of nuns would become pesthouses.

From Flower, Fruit, and Thorn Pieces; or, the Wedded Life, Death, and Marriage of Firmian Stanislaus Siebenkaes, Parish Advocate in the Burgh of Kuhschnappel. by Jean Paul

When De la Salle arrived there he left behind him in Rheims a principal house containing sixteen Brothers, and a training college for country schoolmasters, containing thirty men, besides fifteen lads in their noviciate.

From The Quarterly Review, Volume 162, No. 324, April, 1886 by Various

The third, the circle of voyages, Abred, comprised all the noviciate; it was there, at the bottom of the abysses, in the great oceans, as Taliesin says, that the first breath of man commenced.

From Astronomical Myths Based on Flammarions's History of the Heavens by Blake, John F.

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 Hare, Augustus J. C.