different between evangelist vs disciple

English

Etymology

From Old French evangeliste, from ecclesiastical Latin evangelista, from ecclesiastical Ancient Greek ???????????? (euangelist?s, “bringer of good news”), from ?????????????? (euangelízesthai, “to evangelize”), from ????????? (euángelos, “bringing good news”), from ?? (eû, “well”) + ????????? (angéllein, “to announce”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /??vænd??l?st/

Noun

evangelist (plural evangelists)

1. (Christianity) An itinerant or special preacher, especially a revivalist, who conducts services in different cities or locations, now often televised.
2. (biblical) A writer of a gospel, especially the four New Testament Gospels (Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John), usually Evangelist.
3. (primitive Church) A person who first brought the gospel to a city or region.
4. (Mormon Church) A patriarch.
5. A person marked by extreme enthusiasm for or support of any cause, particularly with regard to religion.
   • 1992, J. D. Douglas, Who's Who in Christian History, ?ISBN, p. 94.

     Booth, William (1829-1912) English evangelist; founder and first general of the Salvation Army ... his subordinates being expected to give him unquestioning obedience.

   • 1994, Frank Lambert, "Pedlar in Divinity", ?ISBN, p. 10.

     Yet in the spreading consumer market of the mid-1700s, his renditions competed with others offering a far different account of the evangelist and his message. The famous artist William Hogarth mocked Whitefield in two engravings presenting the revivalist as a religious fanatic who held sway over the superstitious lower orders.

   • 1996, Peter J. Conn, Pearl S. Buck: A Cultural Biography, ?ISBN, p. 149.

     The film implies that the evangelist, as a type, is a fanatic, a sanctimonious prig, and ultimately a hypocrite.

6. (computing) A person hired to promote a particular technology.

Synonyms

• (preacher): gospeler

Derived terms

• televangelist
• technology evangelist
• evangelism marketing

Related terms

• angel
• angelic
• evangel
• evangelism
• evangelize

Translations

See also

• missionary
• Christer

Further reading

• evangelist in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
• evangelist in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.

Anagrams

• gavestinel

Dutch

Etymology

From Middle Dutch ewangeliste, from Old French evangeliste, from Latin ?vangelista, from Ancient Greek ???????????? (euangelist?s). Equivalent to evangelie +? -ist.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?e?.v??.?e??l?st/
• Hyphenation: evan?ge?list
• Rhymes: -?st

Noun

evangelist m (plural evangelisten, diminutive evangelistje n)

1. (Christianity) An evangelist, , an author of one of the gospels.
2. (Protestantism) A Christian missionary.
3. (Protestantism) A preacher in an evangelical church.

Swedish

Noun

evangelist c

1. evangelist; a preacher of the gospel
2. evangelist; a writer of a gospel

Declension

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)

1. A person who learns from another, especially one who then teaches others.
2. 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.
3. (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)

1. (religion, transitive) To convert (a person) into a disciple.
2. (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 […]

   1. (Christianity, certain denominations) To routinely counsel (one's peer or junior) one-on-one in their discipleship of Christ, as a fellow affirmed disciple.

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)

1. disciple

Further reading

• “disciple” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).