noviciate

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She was summoned to Rome, and, after three years' noviciate at the Sacramentarie, she was permitted, in 1862, to return to Monza, and to begin her community, fifteen nuns being clothed at the same time.

From Story of My Life, volumes 1-3 by Hare, Augustus J. C.

Those young persons who desire to be admitted to the beguinage must first become postulants, and afterward make their noviciate in the convents or communities.

From The Catholic World; Volume I, Issues 1-6 A Monthly Eclectic Magazine by Rameur, E.

Days slowly elapsed without intelligence of Fido, and the arrangements became gradually completed by which, upon the Festival of All Saints, Fidunia was to enter her noviciate.

From Baron Bruno Or, the Unbelieving Philosopher, and Other Fairy Stories by Morgan, Louisa

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

And for want of a hundred cart-loads of stone which I had worked at the quarry—doors and windows—I have not finished the students' studies'—probably in the noviciate near the Claustro da Micha.

From Portuguese Architecture by Watson, Walter Crum