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Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Old English discipul (fem. discipula ), Biblical borrowing from Latin discipulus "pupil, student, follower," said to be from discere "to learn" [OED, Watkins], from a reduplicated form of PIE root *dek- "to take, accept" (see decent ). But according to ...
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Word definitions in Wikipedia
A disciple is a follower and student of a mentor, teacher, or other figure. It can refer to:
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
noun COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS ■ VERB tell ▪ Then she recognises him and he tells her to tell the disciples what she has seen. ▪ This is the nearest the fourth gospel gets to telling the disciples to preach to all the nations. ▪ He tells them to tell his ...
Usage examples of disciple.
My depiction of the Salpetriere at that time is as close to the reality as I can make it, and the various disciples of Charcot, including Georges Gilles de la Tourette, Pierre Marie and Joseph Babinski, existed as described, as did Mile Cottard and Blanche Wittmann.
The Disciples presented figures that would have done Bacchanalia itself proud, Roman gladiators never presented a more frightening or arrogantly cruel picture than they did.
The silence was interrupted only by a chirping cricket somewhere in the distant brush, and the disciple remembered the hours he had spent in a similar posture listening for the footsteps of the Baptist returning from his solitude to the Bethabara cave.
He was clearly a disciple of his boss, Max Bhagat, who was an impeccable dresser.
Iyevenski and a few other surviving Ovchinnikov disciples at the Shemyakin Institute of Bioorganic Chemistry in Moscow.
He must have an alluringly colored elysium to reward his obedient disciples.
Apamea and Emesa disputed his relics, a stately church was erected on his tomb, and six hundred of his disciples united their solitary cells on the banks of the Orontes.
Moors and Parthians, who taught him to dart the javelin and to shoot with the bow, found a disciple who delighted in his application, and soon equalled the most skilful of his instructors in the steadiness of the eye and the dexterity of the hand.
Isidore, compiled by two of their most learned disciples, exhibits a deplorable picture of the second childhood of human reason.
Sabbath Jesus was going through the grainfields, and as his disciples walked along, they began to pick some heads of grain.
I had an idea that one of the grandest sights conceivable would be to set all the disciples of Christ to work striving to get rid of everything anti-christian, and to come as near to Christ, and to each other, as possible, both in truth and virtue.
The Reverend Doctor Honeywood rose and left the priest and his disciple together.
From that period till 1830, the tactics of the Whigs consisted in gently and gradually extricating themselves from their false position as the disciples of Jacobinism, and assuming their ancient post as the hereditary guardians of an hereditary monarchy.
But no sooner had Christianity obtained a foothold on earth, multiplied its converts, and gained some outward sway, than its Judaizing disciples and promulgators, fastening on that which was easiest to comprehend and practise, that which was most impressive to the imagination, that which seemed most sharply to distinguish them from the unbelieving and unconforming world around, thrust far into the background this universal and eternal test of judgment set up by Jesus himself, and in place of it installed an exclusive test fashioned after a more developed and aggravated pattern of the very narrowest and worst elements in the Phariasaism which he expressly came to supersede.
It is not without reason that the artists paint the beloved disciple as likest his Lord in features.