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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

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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 disciples, or The twelve disciples, the twelve selected companions of Jesus; -- also called the apostles. -- Disciples of Christ. See Christian, n., 3, and Campbellite. Syn. -- Learner; scholar; pupil; follower; adherent. (more info) discipulus, fr. discere to learn (akin to docere to teach; see Docile) + prob. a root meaning to turn or drive, as in L. pellere to

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  • 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.
  • CATECHUMENATE
    The state or condition of a catechumen or the time during which one is a catechumen.
  • GOWNSMAN; GOWNMAN
    One whose professional habit is a gown, as a divine or lawyer, and particularly a member of an English university; hence, a civilian, in distinction from a soldier.
  • 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.
  • ADHERENTLY
    In an adherent manner.
  • LINGUIST
    1. A master of the use of language; a talker. I'll dispute with him; He's a rare linguist. J. Webster. 2. A person skilled in languages. There too were Gibbon, the greatest historian, and Jones, the greatest linguist, of the age. Macaulay.
  • PUPILLARY
    Of or pertaining to the pupil of the eye. (more info) 1. Of or pertaining to a pupil or ward. Johnson.
  • DISCIPLESS
    A female disciple.
  • SCHOOLMAN
    One versed in the niceties of academical disputation or of school divinity. Note: The schoolmen were philosophers and divines of the Middle Ages, esp. from the 11th century to the Reformation, who spent much time on points of nice and
  • LINGUISTICS
    The science of languages, or of the origin, signification, and application of words; glossology.
  • PARTISAN
    1. An adherent to a party or faction; esp., one who is strongly and passionately devoted to a party or an interest. "The violence of a partisan." Macaulay. Both sides had their partisans in the colony. Jefferson. The commander of a body of detached
  • 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)
  • ATTENDANT
    Depending on, or owing duty or service to; as, the widow attendant to the heir. Cowell. Attendant keys , the keys or scales most nearly related to, or having most in common with, the principal key; those, namely, of its fifth above, or dominant,
  • LINGUISTIC; LINGUISTICAL
    Of or pertaining to language; relating to linguistics, or to the affinities of languages.
  • ADHERENT
    Congenitally united with an organ of another kind, as calyx with ovary, or stamens with petals. (more info) 1. Sticking; clinging; adhering. Pope. 2. Attached as an attribute or circumstance.
  • CONDISCIPLE
    A schoolfellow; a fellow-student.

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