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Vinony

disciple

noun

  1. student following a master
  2. followers of Jesus, Christian perspective
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Wiktionary

Pronunciation: /dɪˈsaɪ.pəl/

noun

Etymology: A proprialization of disciple.

  1. Any of the followers of Jesus Christ.
  2. One of the twelve disciples of Jesus sent out as Apostles.
  3. Ellipsis of Disciple of Christ (“member of a particular religious group”).

verb

Etymology: From Middle English disciple, discipul, from Old English discipul (“disciple, scholar”), from Latin discipulus (“pupil, learner”). Later influenced or superseded in Middle English by Old French deciple.

  1. To convert (a person) into a disciple.
  2. To train, educate, teach.

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

  3. To train, educate, teach.

    “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 their members in a biblical view of marriage, sexuality, parenting, and the sanctity of life.””