Nóvel. n.s. [nouvelle, French.]
- A small tale, generally of love.
Nothing of a foreign nature; like the trifling novels which Ariosto inserted in his poems. Dryden.
Her mangl'd fame in barb'rous pastime lost,
The coxcomb's novel and the drunkard's toast. Prior. - A law annexed to the code.
By the civil law, no one was to be ordained a presbyter till he was thirty-five years of age: though by a later novel it was sufficient, if he was above thirty. Ayliffe's Par.