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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Disciple \Dis*ci"ple\, n. [OE. disciple, deciple, OF. disciple, fr. L. discipulus, fr. discere to learn (akin to docere to teach; see Docile) + prob. a root meaning to turn or drive, as in L. pellere to drive (see Pulse).] One who receives instruction from another; a scholar; a learner; especially, a follower who has learned to believe in the truth of the doctrine of his teacher; an adherent in doctrine; as, the disciples of Plato; the disciples of our Savior.
The disciples, or The twelve disciples, the twelve selected companions of Jesus; -- also called the apostles.
Disciples of Christ. See Christian, n., 3, and Campbellite.
Syn: Learner; scholar; pupil; follower; adherent.
Disciple \Dis*ci"ple\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Discipled; p. pr. & vb. n. Discipling.]
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To teach; to train. [Obs.]
That better were in virtues discipled.
--Spenser. To punish; to discipline. [Obs.]
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To make disciples of; to convert to doctrines or principles. [R.]
Sending missionaries to disciple all nations.
--E. D. Griffin.
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 Barnhart and Klein, from a lost compound *discipere "to grasp intellectually, analyze thoroughly," from dis- "apart" (see dis-) + capere "to take, take hold of" (see capable). Compare Latin capulus "handle" from capere. Sometimes glossed in Old English by þegn (see thane).
Wiktionary
n. 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. vb. (context obsolete English) To train, educate, teach.
WordNet
n. someone who believes and helps to spread the doctrine of another [syn: adherent]
Wikipedia
A disciple is a follower and student of a mentor, teacher, or other figure. It can refer to:
In Christianity, the term disciple primarily refers to students of Jesus and is found in the New Testament only in the Gospels and Acts. The New Testament records many followers of Jesus during his ministry, but only some became disciples. Some disciples were given a mission, such as the Little Commission, the commission of the 70 in Luke's gospel, the Great Commission after the resurrection of Jesus, or the conversion of Paul, making them Apostles, charged with proclaiming the Good News (or Gospel) to the world. Jesus emphasised that being his disciples would be costly.
Disciple is a Christian metal / rock band from Knoxville, Tennessee, formed in 1992.
Disciple is the fifth album released by Christian rock group Disciple, on June 7, 2005. When the single "The Wait is Over" was released, it broke several records in Christian music, including the longest spot at No. 1 on the R&R Charts.
A special edition was released on June 6, 2006 as a DualDisc containing four bonus songs and a making-of DVD. The covers between the two albums differ only in the background color but are otherwise identical.
Disciple is a 2013 Finnish drama film directed by Ulrika Bengts. The film was selected as the Finnish entry for the Best Foreign Language Film at the 86th Academy Awards, but it was not nominated.
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.