disciple
/dɪˈsʌɪp(ə)l
/noun
1A personal follower of Christ during his life, especially one of the twelve Apostles.Jesus' apostles and disciples in the early Church felt the importance of prayer ahead of missionary activity....
- As Christ said to his disciples, there are certain types of devils that can only be chased by fasting, sacrifice, and prayer.
- This woman and this man were, in the most concrete way possible, the first disciples of Christ.
Synonyms
apostle;
follower
1.1A follower or pupil of a teacher, leader, or philosopher: a disciple of Rousseau...
- Those who had been disciples now became teachers, those who had been masters became pupils.
- Pius II said of Catherine: ‘She seemed to have been a teacher rather than a disciple.’
- All the great leaders, teachers and revolutionaries have been disciples of some degree, whether they were conscious of the fact or not.
Synonyms
follower, adherent, believer, admirer, devotee, acolyte, votary;
pupil, student, protégé, learner;
upholder, supporter, advocate, proponent, apologist;
Hinduism chela, bhakta
Derivatives
discipleship
/ noun ...- The best way to make disciples is to provide for discipleship experiences.
- Discipleship is also reciprocal, that is, when one learns, he/she makes the commitment to train someone else.
- How important is discipleship in the Christian life?
disciplic
- The International Society claims a disciplic link to her via the sixteenth-century charismatic figure.
- In other words, the Vedic knowledge broken into different branches by different disciplic successions (known as shakhas) has been distributed all over the world.
- And, violations of this condition means breaking of the link of disciplic succession and thereby losing the real purpose of the great philosophy.
discipular
- He has absorbed the teachings of his Lord from the purest sources of the discipular lines, in India, Tibet and Nepal.
- Indeed the significance of the kinship or discipular link to Tansen is related to the fact that for Muslim Hindustani musicians musical theory was coded in an essentially oral medium.
Origin
Old English, from Latin discipulus 'learner', from discere 'learn'; reinforced by Old French deciple.