Definition of "disciple"

disciple

/dɪˈsaɪ.pəl/

noun
plural disciples
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.
  Quotations
  And it came to pass, as Jesus sat at meat in the house, behold, many publicans and sinners came and sat down with him and his disciples.
  1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], Matthew 9:10
  By some paradoxical evolution rancour and intolerance have been established in the vanguard of primitive Christianity. Mrs. Spoker, in common with many of the stricter disciples of righteousness, was as inclement in demeanour as she was cadaverous in aspect.
  1922, Ben Travers, chapter 4, in A Cuckoo in the Nest
3. (Ireland) A wretched, miserable-looking man.
verb
third-person singular simple present disciples, present participle discipling, simple past and past participle discipled
1. (religion, transitive) To convert (a person) into a disciple.
2. (religion, transitive) To train, educate, teach.
  Quotations
  fraile youth is oft to follie led, / Through false allurement of that pleasing baite, / That better were in vertues discipled […]
  1596, Edmund Spenser, “Book IV, Canto I”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie
  1. (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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