Disciple
[dɪ'saɪp(ə)l] or [dɪ'saɪpl]
Definition
(noun.) someone who believes and helps to spread the doctrine of another.
Typed by Helga--From WordNet
Definition
(n.) 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.
(v. t.) To teach; to train.
(v. t.) To punish; to discipline.
(v. t.) To make disciples of; to convert to doctrines or principles.
Typed by Garrett
Synonyms and Synonymous
n. [1].Scholar, pupil, learner.[2].Follower, adherent, partisan, supporter, retainer.
Typed by Gordon
Synonyms and Antonyms
SYN:Follower, student, believer, votary
ANT:Master, teacher, leader, professor
Typist: Lycurgus
Definition
n. one who professes to receive instruction from another: one who follows or believes in the doctrine of another: a follower esp. one of the twelve disciples of Christ.—v.t. (Spens.) to teach.—n. Discī′pleship.—Disciples of Christ a denomination of American Baptists also known as Campbellites.
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Examples
- I little expected in this enlightened and scientific age to find a disciple of Albertus Magnus and Paracelsus. Mary Shelley. Frankenstein_Or_The Modern Prometheus.
- The king, who was a man of excellent dispositions, but easily led, had now become a willing disciple of his imperious consort. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
- It is to Lyell's disciple, Charles Darwin, however, that we turn for our main illustration of the value of travel for comprehensive scientific gen eralization. Walter Libby. An Introduction to the History of Science.
- As His disciple I adopt His pure, His merciful, His benignant doctrines. Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.
- It was not the house of the disciple who sold the Master for thirty pieces of silver. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
- By these and other experiments this doubting disciple confi rmed Hutton's theory, and became one of the great founders of experim ental geology. Walter Libby. An Introduction to the History of Science.
- The honoured parent steering Northward, had not gone far, when he was joined by another disciple of Izaak Walton, and the two trudged on together. Charles Dickens. A Tale of Two Cities.
- On November 14, 1888, President Carnot opened the institution, which was soon to witness the triumphs of Roux, Yersin, Metchnikoff, and other disciples of Pasteur. Walter Libby. An Introduction to the History of Science.
- Perhaps more than anyone else, the Fabians are responsible for turning English socialist thought from the verbalism of the Marxian disciples to the actualities of English political life. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
- And he stretched forth his hand towards his disciples, and said, Behold my mother and my brethren! H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- We do not hear of his smacking the faces or wringing the wrists of recalcitrant or unresponsive disciples. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- But even his disciples did not grasp the profound and comprehensive significance of that proposal. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- Nor did it retain any hold upon the minds of his disciples in a later generation; it was probably unintelligible to them. Plato. The Republic.
- Christians upon a journey were always sure of a warm welcome and hospitable entertainment from their fellow-disciples. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
Typist: Lottie