† novistn.
Obsolete.
1. A novice, a beginner.
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society > education > learning > learner > [noun] > novice or beginner
younglingOE
new-comeOE
novice1340
ginner?c1400
beginner1470
apprentice1489
prentice1489
infant1526
freshmana1557
intrant1560
enterer1565
puny?1570
weakling1575
new comeling1587
novist1587
incipient1589
puisne1592
abecedary1596
neophyte1600
abecedarian1603
bachelor1604
novelist?1608
alphabetary1611
breeching boy1611
tiro1611
alphabetarian1614
principiant1619
unexperienced1622
velvet head1631
undergraduatea1659
young stager1664
greenhorn1672
battledore boy1693
youngster1706
tironist1716
novitiatea1734
recruit1749
griffin1793
initiate1811
Johnny Newcome1815
Johnny Raw1823
griff1829
plebe1833
Johnny-come-lately1839
new chum1851
blanc-bec1853
fledgling1856
rookie1868
elementarian1876
tenderfoot1881
shorthorn1888
new kid1894
cheechako1897
ring-neck1898
Johnny1901
rook1902
fresh meat1908
malihini1914
initiand1915
stooge1930
intakea1943
cub1966
1587 T. Hughes Misfortunes Arthur iii. iii. 29 Tell the boy his angry father comes, To teach a Nouist both to die, and dare.
1592 W. Wyrley Lord Chandos in True Vse Armorie 84 The sayler drinks, quicke boy hies to the top, Ech nouist stands, and doth on hatches hop.
1632 J. Hayward tr. G. F. Biondi Eromena i. 13 Being but a Novist in that practise.
1674 Hogan-Moganides 81 Parhasius the first that drew The Hair and Face in Native hue Was but a Novist to compare With him.
1743 W. Ellis Let. 18 Dec. in Mod. Husbandman (1744) Apr. x. 93 Which Property of this excellent Plough is in Favour of a Novist [Dublin ed. Novice] Ploughman.
1794 J. Clark Agric. Herefordshire 55 His office [sc. the surveyor's]..by the present laws, is destined to be eternally in the occupation of one novist after another.
2. A person given to novel opinions; an innovator. Frequently depreciative.
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the world > time > relative time > the future or time to come > newness or novelty > [noun] > innovation or avant-gardism > innovator or avant-gardist
novelist1593
innovator1598
novateur1600
novator1600
noveller1604
novist1660
setter-up1713
innovationist1800
vanguardist1934
avant-gardist1940
1660 Scutum Regale: Royal Buckler 339 He would be but a poor revenger..had the people, (as our Novists feign) not he, the sole disposing of the Militia.
1672 T. Venn Mil. & Maritine Discipline Ep. Ded. It was not to raise a dispute among the Novists.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2003; most recently modified version published online December 2020).
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