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disciple

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noun/dɪˈsaɪ.pəl/
  1. 1

    A person who learns from another, especially one who then teaches others.

  2. 2

    An active follower or adherent of someone, or some philosophy etc.

    • 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.
  3. 3

    A wretched, miserable-looking man.Ireland

syn. student

verb/dɪˈsaɪ.pəl/
  1. 1

    To convert (a person) into a disciple.transitive

  2. 2

    To train, educate, teach.transitive

    • fraile youth is oft to follie led, / Through false allurement of that pleasing baite, / That better were in vertues discipled […]
  3. 3

    To train, educate, teach.; To routinely counsel (one's peer or junior) one-on-one in their discipleship of Christ, as a fellow affirmed disciple.transitive

    • Most recently, messengers to the 2025 SBC Annual Meeting passed the resolution On Restoring Moral Clarity through God’s Design for Gender, Marriage, and the Family, which resolves among many beliefs that “we encourage churches to disciple t
noun
  1. 1

    Any of the followers of Jesus Christ.

  2. 2

    One of the twelve disciples of Jesus sent out as Apostles.

  3. 3

    Ellipsis of Disciple of Christ (“member of a particular religious group”).abbreviationalt-ofellipsis

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