noviciate

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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

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

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

As soon as the pupil has passed her noviciate in the art, she holds both reins in the left hand.

From The Young Lady's Equestrian Manual by Anonymous