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disciple
English
Etymology
From Middle English disciple, discipul, from Old English discipul m (“disciple; scholar”) and discipula f (“female disciple”), both from Latin discipulus (“a pupil, learner”). Later influenced or superseded in Middle English by Old French deciple.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /d??sa?pl?/
- Hyphenation: dis?ci?ple
Noun
disciple (plural disciples)
- A person who learns from another, especially one who then teaches others.
- An active follower or adherent of someone, or some philosophy etc.
- And it came to pass, as Jesus sat at meat in the house, behold, many publicans and sinners came and sat down with him and his disciples.
- (Ireland) A wretched, miserable-looking man.
Synonyms
- student
Related terms
- discipleship
- disciplic
- discipline
Translations
See also
- apostle
Verb
disciple (third-person singular simple present disciples, present participle discipling, simple past and past participle discipled)
- (religion, transitive) To convert (a person) into a disciple.
- (religion, transitive) To train, educate, teach.
- 1590, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, IV.i:
- fraile youth is oft to follie led, / Through false allurement of that pleasing baite, / That better were in vertues discipled […]
- (Christianity, certain denominations) To routinely counsel (one's peer or junior) one-on-one in their discipleship of Christ, as a fellow affirmed disciple.
- 1590, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, IV.i:
Further reading
- disciple in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
- disciple in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.
French
Etymology
From Old French deciple, borrowed from Latin discipulus.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /di.sipl/
Noun
disciple m (plural disciples)
- disciple
Further reading
- “disciple” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).
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apostles
English
Noun
apostles
- plural of apostle
- (law) Letters dismissory.
Anagrams
- ale posts, eoplasts, postsale
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