Disc in a (disina)

[NL., IMG:content-2751.png:[blocks in formation] IMG:content-2752.png:[blocks in formation] deciple, decyple , etc., disciple , desciple , F. disciple Pr. disciple = Sp. discípulo = Pg. dis- cipulo = It. discepolo = AS. discipul (rare; the AS. gospels translate L. disci pulus by leornung- cniht, lit. 'learning-boy' (see knight ) , a youth engaged in learning) = D. Dan. Sw. discipel , disci pulus , a learner, discere , learn, akin to docere, teach.] 1. A learner; a scholar; one who receives or profe es to receive instruc- tion from another: as, the disciples of Plato. And grete well Chaucer, when ye mete, As my disciple and my poete. IMG:content-2753.png:[blocks in formation] Disciples of Christ. (a) The twelve men specially called or selected by Jesus Christ to be his immediate a ociates or followers during the three years of his ministry. (b) A Baptist denomination of Christians founded in the United States by Thomas and Alexander Campbell, father and son (originally Irish Presbyterians), and first organized by the latter as a separate body in western Virginia in 1827. The members of this denomination call themselves Disci ples of Christ, and they are also known as Campbell i tes, or simply Christians, the last of which names is more distinctively appropriated by another denomination. (See Chris tian, 5.) Their original purpose was to find a basis upon which all Christians could unite, and hence they rejected all formulas or creeds but the Bible itself; but their belief is generally orthodox or evangelical, including the doctrine of the Trinity. In general, the only terms of admi ion to the denomination are the acceptance of the Bible as a sufficient and infallible rule of faith and practice, and adult baptism by immersion. In church government they are congregational. They have representatives in Great Britain and its colonial po e ions, but exist in the greatest numbers in the western and southwestern portions of the United States. - The seventy disciples, in the Mormon Ch., a body of men who in rarchy next after the twelve apostles. =Syn. 1. Pupil, student, catechumen. disciple (di-sī'pl, formerly dis'i-pl), v. t.; pret. and pp. discipled, ppr. discipling. [ That better were in vertues discipled , Then with vaine poemes weeds to have their fancies fed. Spenser, F. Q., IV., Prol.