Both Uses of
disciple
in
The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin
- It was to be for the use of a congregation he had gathered among the Presbyterians, who were originally disciples of Mr. Whitefield.†
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- …answered M. Nollet, and the event gave me no cause to repent my silence; for my friend M. le Roy, of the Royal Academy of Sciences, took up my cause and refuted him; my book was translated into the Italian, German, and Latin languages; and the doctrine it contain'd was by degrees universally adopted by the philosophers of Europe, in preference to that of the abbe; so that he lived to see himself the last of his sect, except Monsieur B——, of Paris, his eleve and immediate disciple.†
Definition:
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(disciple) someone who believes and helps to spread the teachings of anothereditor's notes: "Disciples" is sometimes used as a proper noun (capitalized) to reference the twelve disciples of Jesus.