Word Meanings - CATECHUMEN - Book Publishers vocabulary database

One who is receiving rudimentary instruction in the doctrines of Christianity; a neophyte; in the primitive church, one officially recognized as a Christian, and admitted to instruction preliminary to admission to full membership in the church.

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of CATECHUMEN)

• Learner
• Tyro
• novice
• pupil
• student
• beginner
• scholar
• disciple
• catechumen
• Proselyte
• Convert
• neophyte

Related words: (words related to CATECHUMEN)

• CONVERTIBILITY
  The condition or quality of being convertible; capability of being exchanged; convertibleness. The mutual convertibility of land into money, and of money into land. Burke.
• SCHOLARSHIP
  1. The character and qualities of a scholar; attainments in science or literature; erudition; learning. A man of my master's . . . great scholarship. Pope. 2. Literary education. Any other house of scholarship. Milton. 3. Maintenance for a scholar;
• CATECHUMENIST
  A catechumen. Bp. Morton.
• CONVERTIBLY
  In a convertible manner.
• CATECHUMENATE
  The state or condition of a catechumen or the time during which one is a catechumen.
• STUDENTRY
  A body of students.
• STUDENT
  1. A person engaged in study; one who is devoted to learning; a learner; a pupil; a scholar; especially, one who attends a school, or who seeks knowledge from professional teachers or from books; as, the students of an academy, a college, or a
• NOVICE
  One who enters a religious house, whether of monks or nuns, as a probationist. Shipley. No poore cloisterer, nor no novys. Chaucer. (more info) 1. One who is new in any business, profession, or calling; one unacquainted or unskilled; one yet in
• CATECHUMEN
  One who is receiving rudimentary instruction in the doctrines of Christianity; a neophyte; in the primitive church, one officially recognized as a Christian, and admitted to instruction preliminary to admission to full membership in the church.
• PROSELYTE
  A new convert especially a convert to some religion or religious sect, or to some particular opinion, system, or party; thus, a Gentile converted to Judaism, or a pagan converted to Christianity, is a proselyte. Ye compass sea and land to make
• PUPILLARY
  Of or pertaining to the pupil of the eye. (more info) 1. Of or pertaining to a pupil or ward. Johnson.
• CONVERTIBLE
  1. Capable of being converted; susceptible of change; transmutable; transformable. Minerals are not convertible into another species, though of the same genus. Harvey. 2. Capable of being exchanged or interchanged; reciprocal; interchangeable.
• DISCIPLESS
  A female disciple.
• CONVERTEND
  Any proposition which is subject to the process of conversion; -- so called in its relation to itself as converted, after which process it is termed the conversae. See Converse, n. .
• SCHOLARLY
  Like a scholar, or learned person; showing the qualities of a scholar; as, a scholarly essay or critique. -- adv.
• PUPILLARITY
  The period before puberty, or from birth to fourteen in males, and twelve in females. (more info) Law)
• DISCIPLESHIP
  The state of being a disciple or follower in doctrines and precepts. Jer. Taylor.
• DISCIPLE
  One who receives instruction from another; a scholar; a learner; especially, a follower who has learned to believe in the truth of the doctrine of his teacher; an adherent in doctrine; as, the disciples of Plato; the disciples of our Savior. The
• LEARNER
  One who learns; a scholar.
• SCHOLARLIKE
  Scholarly. Bacon.
• INCONVERTED
  Not turned or changed about. Sir T. Browne.
• RECONVERTIBLE
  Capable of being reconverted; convertible again to the original form or condition.
• UNCONVERTED
  1. Not converted or exchanged. 2. Not changed in opinion, or from one faith to another. Specifically: -- Not persuaded of the truth of the Christian religion; heathenish. Hooker. Unregenerate; sinful; impenitent. Baxter.
• CONDISCIPLE
  A schoolfellow; a fellow-student.
• PHASE CONVERTER
  A machine for converting an alternating current into an alternating current of a different number of phases and the same frequency.
• INCONVERTIBLE
  Not convertible; not capable of being transmuted, changed into, or exchanged for, something else; as, one metal is inconvertible into another; bank notes are sometimes inconvertible into specie. Walsh.
• UNPROSELYTE
  To convert or recover from the state of a proselyte. Fuller.
• INCONVERTIBLENESS
  Inconvertibility.
• INTERCONVERTIBLE
  Convertible the one into the other; as, coin and bank notes are interconvertible.
• INCONVERTIBLY
  In an inconvertible manner.