Novice /(?)/

Nov·ice

Novice

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.
  2. One newly received into the church, or one newly converted to the Christian faith.
  3. One who enters a religious house, whether of monks or nuns, as a probationist. (Eccl.)
    No poore cloisterer, nor no novys.

Novice

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