(Nicolas), a learned and laborious ecclesiastic, who died in the year 1749 at an advanced age. He is known by his excellent Latin dictionary, intitled Novitius, printed at Paris 1721, 2 vols 4to. Notwithstanding the great utility of this dictionary to matters, and the merited esteem in which it is held, it has never undergone another edition; for in that which bears the date of 1733, there is no circumstance of difference except the frontispiece. In this dictionary, besides the words to be met with in the classics, we find all those which occur in the Bible, the breviary, and the ecclesiastical authors, the terms of art, the names of great men, heathen gods, bishops, councils, heresies, &c.; in short, more than 6000 words which are not to be found in the common dictionaries.