Synonyms:
disciple, adherent
Meaning: someone who believes and helps to spread the doctrine of another
Usage examples
[Sidenote: Between master and disciple.]
In other words, be alternately disciple and master.
He adds that the humility and patience of the disciple was a lesson for the master.
The last and by far the latest writer of God's Book was St. John, the beloved disciple.
What disciple could be expected to report perfectly the words of a teacher so mystically sublime?
Joe, a nice she-tabby, was a curious specimen of the feline fish-catcher. Her master was a disciple of Walton's.
Seemingly, therefore, the intellect of the disciple and master is but one; and, consequently, the same applies to all men.
It seems, therefore, that the same individual knowledge which is in the master is communicated to the disciple; which cannot be, unless there is one intellect in both.
On a question being put to him by Lin Fang, a disciple, as to what was the radical idea upon which the Rules of Propriety were based, the Master exclaimed, "Ah! that is a large question.
Addressing his favorite disciple, he said, "To you only and myself it has been given to do this--to go when called to serve, and to go back into quiet retirement when released from office."