noviciate

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Every young Jesuit in Europe was first trained, during two full years of noviciate, to the exact practice of religious virtues.

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 Dallas, R. C. (Robert Charles)

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

The nuns of the Sepolte Vive are never seen again after they once assume the black veil, though they are allowed double the ordinary noviciate.

From Walks in Rome by Hare, Augustus J. C.

Admission to the Society was attended by a variety of ceremonies; a protracted noviciate followed, and it was only by progressive advancement that any were promoted to the higher dignities.

From The Belief in Immortality and the Worship of the Dead Vol. II by Frazer, James George, Sir