disciple
IPA: dɪsˈaɪpʌɫ
Root Word: Disciple
noun
- Any of the followers of Jesus Christ.
- One of the twelve disciples of Jesus sent out as Apostles.
- A person who learns from another, especially one who then teaches others.
- An active follower or adherent of someone, or some philosophy etc.
- (Ireland) A wretched, miserable-looking man.
- Short for Disciple of Christ (“member of a particular religious group”). [A member of the Christian Church (Disciples of Christ), a mainline Protestant Christian denomination in the United States and Canada.]
verb
- (religion, transitive) To convert (a person) into a disciple.
- (religion, transitive) To train, educate, teach.
- (Christianity, certain denominations) To routinely counsel (one's peer or junior) one-on-one in their discipleship of Christ, as a fellow affirmed disciple.
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Examples of "disciple" in Sentences
- All the disciples praised him.
- He was a doctrinaire disciple of Marcellus.
- A Lewis disciple, he was indiscreet about his teacher.
- He was a disciple of Diogenes of Sinope, the Cynic philosopher.
- He was the disciple of Purandara Dasa and the teacher of Tansen.
- His disciples were highly perturbed at the absence of their guru.
- He was the disciple and successor of Epicurus as head of the school.
- Porphyry was also opposed to the theurgy of his disciple Iamblichus.
- In the eyes of contemporary people what the disciple did was outrageous.
- It wasn't just the inexorable working of the law of diminishing disciples.
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