Apostle

[ə'pɒs(ə)l] or [ə'pɑsl]

解釋/意思:

(noun.) (New Testament) one of the original 12 disciples chosen by Christ to preach his gospel.

(noun.) any important early teacher of Christianity or a Christian missionary to a people.

(noun.) an ardent early supporter of a cause or reform; 'an apostle of revolution'.

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解釋/意思:

(n.) Literally: One sent forth; a messenger. Specifically: One of the twelve disciples of Christ, specially chosen as his companions and witnesses, and sent forth to preach the gospel.

(n.) The missionary who first plants the Christian faith in any part of the world; also, one who initiates any great moral reform, or first advocates any important belief; one who has extraordinary success as a missionary or reformer; as, Dionysius of Corinth is called the apostle of France, John Eliot the apostle to the Indians, Theobald Mathew the apostle of temperance.

(n.) A brief letter dimissory sent by a court appealed from to the superior court, stating the case, etc.; a paper sent up on appeals in the admiralty courts.

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同義詞及近義詞：

n. Messenger, missionary.

本校對

解釋/意思:

n. one sent to preach the gospel: specially one of the twelve disciples of Christ: the founder of the Christian Church in a country e.g. Augustine the apostle of the English; Columba of the Scots; Boniface of Germany &c.: the principal champion or supporter of a new system or of some cause: the highest in the fourfold ministry of the Catholic and Apostolic Church: one of the twelve officials forming a presiding high council in the Mormon Church.—ns. Apos′tleship the office or dignity of an apostle; Apost′olate the office of an apostle: leadership in a propaganda.—adjs. Apostol′ic -al.—ns. Apostol′icism profession of apostolicity; Apostolic′ity the quality of being apostolic—Apostles' creed the oldest form of Christian creed that exists early ascribed to the apostles and indeed substantially if not strictly apostolic; Apostle spoons silver spoons with handles ending in figures of the apostles a common baptismal present in the 16th and 17th centuries; Apostles Teaching of the Twelve—often called merely the Didachē (Gr. 'teaching')—the title of a treatise discovered in 1883 on Christian doctrine and government closely connected with the last two books (vii.-viii.) of the Apostolic Constitutions.—Apostolic Constitutions and Canons notes of ecclesiastical customs held to be apostolical written in the form of apostolic precepts and erroneously ascribed by tradition to Clement of Rome; Apostolic Fathers the immediate disciples and fellow-labourers of the apostles more especially those who have left writings behind them (Barnabas Clement of Rome Ignatius Hermas Polycarp); Apostolic see the see of Rome; Apostolic Vicar the cardinal representing the Pope in extraordinary missions.—Apostolical succession the derivation of holy orders by an assumed unbroken chain of transmission from the apostles through their natural successors the bishops—the theory of the Catholic Church: the assumption that a ministry so ordained enjoy the succession of apostolic powers and privileges.

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