noviciate

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Hardly was the ceremony of assuming the habit completed, when the superior informed him he must depart on the morrow to perform his noviciate at ——, sixty miles' distance.

From The Betrothed From the Italian of Alessandro Manzoni by Manzoni, Alessandro

The year of noviciate being passed he made his solemn profession on March 25, 1476, and remained for about four years more in the monastery, during which time he finished his studies and became priest.

From Intarsia and Marquetry by Jackson, F. Hamilton (Frederick Hamilton)

After them he painted a Piet�, coloured in fresco, which is very beautiful, in a niche at the head of a staircase in the noviciate of the same convent.

From Lives of the Most Eminent Painters Sculptors and Architects Vol. 05 ( of 10) Andrea da Fiesole to Lorenzo Lotto by De Vere, Gaston du C.

The Mevlevites seem to have the most severe noviciate.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 8, Slice 2 "Demijohn" to "Destructor" by Various

His noviciate is nearly expired; tomorrow he will pronounce his vows.

From The Mirror of Taste, and Dramatic Censor Volume I, Number 3 by Carpenter, S. C. (Stephen Cullen)