Novice

NOVICE. 1 Tim 3:6. The word in the Greek means "newly planted." Paul counsels that such persons should not be raised to the position of overseers or pastors, urging that they were liable to become proud and commit faults. There were necessarily many novices in the early church organizations.

NOVICE. 1 Tim 3:6. The word in the Greek means "newly planted." Paul counsels that such persons should not be raised to the position of overseers or pastors, urging that they were liable to become proud and commit faults. There were necessarily many novices in the early church organizations.

Part of speech: noun (n.)

1. One who is new in any business, profession, or calling; one unacquainted or unskilled; one yet in the rudiments; a beginner; a tyro. I am young; a novice in the trade. Dryden.

2. One newly received into the church, or one newly converted to the Christian faith. 1 Tim. iii. 6.

3. One who enters a religious house, whether of monks or nuns, as a probationist. Shipley. No poore cloisterer, nor no novys. Chaucer.

Part of speech: adjective (a.)

Like a novice; becoming a novice. [Obs.]