(n.) 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.
(v. t.) To teach; to train.
(v. t.) To punish; to discipline.
(v. t.) To make disciples of; to convert to doctrines or principles.
Example Sentences:
(1) With the Dynamo winning three of their last four, that scenario was becoming more likely, though disciples of the Church of Dom were given reason for pause on Saturday.
(2) This school of thought has had a massive surge in disciples of late, as the dust settles in the aftermath of the credit crisis; now that the second wave of the credit crunch appears to be upon us, the baying for blood has become even louder and more vituperative.
(3) Chicago police say the number 300 is street slang for Black Disciple gang.
(4) Many of his disciples and coworkers became first rate scientists, owing a lot to his encouraging personality.
(5) Last year's annual report by the UN Conference on Trade and Development should have been an obituary for the neoliberal model developed by Hayek and Friedman and their disciples.
(6) It was the negative influence of his former disciple, that teutonically resolute Austrian chap that mislead il Duce; we Italians were less ruthless with the Jews – that was the gist of his speech.
(7) Other objections rest on the fact that Jesus chose only male disciples.
(8) Berizzo, a disciple of Marcelo Bielsa who he first worked under aged 14, pushes his team high up the pitch and at great speed; the ball moves quickly, the players too.
(9) It is maybe unsurprising, then, that many of Jacobs' disciples have had nothing but scorn for the High Line.
(10) Crowley, who was also a mountaineer, yoga enthusiast, occultist, poet, painter, rumoured spy and magician, became known in the press as “the wickedest man in the world” after the wife of one of his disciples blamed her husband’s death on drinking the blood of a sacrificed cat.
(11) He's not a slavish disciple of markets, or small government (although fiscal circumstances and periodic stiffening from economic dries within the Liberal party may make him something of a latterday convert on this score at least).
(12) Or I lost it.” Muhammad Ali: fighter, joker, magician, religious disciple, preacher Read more Another memory I have of that time is of waking up one morning in Ali’s home and hearing Lonnie cry out, “Oh my God!
(13) In early 2015, Isis was at the height of its power, and was still attracting thousands of eager new disciples every month from all over the world.
(14) CBT and exercise have their disciples, but clearly aren’t panaceas.
(15) He washed volunteers’ feet on the steps of the capitol building in an allusion to the gospel of John, in which Jesus washes the disciples in what Cato said was an act of love “with no caveat”.
(16) In 1914, Pavlov's disciple N. R. Shenger-Krestovnikova, exploring the limits of visual discrimination in dogs, noticed that when the discrimination was difficult, the dogs' behavior became disorganized.
(17) One of Boris Johnson’s Eurosceptic disciples interrupted a live Channel 4 broadcast on Friday night on the mayor of London’s orders.
(18) Graffiti is only ever graffiti when it’s done illegally.” Saysell said he was a disciple of the “broken windows theory”, the idea that tackling small acts of vandalism promotes a sense of order which prevents further crime.
(19) Nasser was a flawed and tragic idol by the time Gaddafi had acquired the means to emulate him, but an immensely potent one all the same, and had he lived, the disciple would have remained in the shadow of the master.
(20) Jiang Jiemin, another high-profile disciple of Zhou and the former head of the commission that oversees China’s state-owned companies, was sentenced to 16 years in October.
Disciplinarian
Definition:
(a.) Pertaining to discipline.
(n.) One who disciplines; one who excels in training, especially with training, especially with regard to order and obedience; one who enforces rigid discipline; a stickler for the observance of rules and methods of training; as, he is a better disciplinarian than scholar.
(n.) A Puritan or Presbyterian; -- because of rigid adherence to religious or church discipline.
Example Sentences:
(1) Crosby, who is praised as a highly effective disciplinarian, has instructed Tories to ram home two key messages: the party has a serious “long-term economic plan” for the future and voters are being offered a binary choice at the election between the competence of the Tories and the chaos of Labour.
(2) Joe was a disciplinarian who ruled the family with an iron rod.
(3) Paolo Di Canio is convinced Sunderland would have been relegated if he had not replaced Martin O'Neill at the end of March and believes his disciplinarian approach to management can bring success to Wearside next season.
(4) The abuse allegations are centred on the Cambridge House hostel in Rochdale where Smith, who died in 2010, was allegedly given "a disciplinarian role".
(5) Lindsay Lohan's father told the tabloids that his daughter tried the Betty Ford Center's disciplinarian model but found Cliffside much more to her liking.
(6) His calm, clear and collaborative manner helped lift the spirit of a team who had become rather morose under his disciplinarian predecessor, Claude Puel , and he fostered a vibrant attacking style while remaining versatile enough to use a variety of formations.
(7) This patient's mother was a strict, harsh disciplinarian who insisted upon total compliance as a condition for her approval and love.
(8) Disciplinarian advice has alternated with liberal advice ever since: for every Gina Ford advocating controlled crying, there has been a liberal antidote – a Dr Spock or Penelope Leach – although sometimes it is hard to distinguish the liberal from the prescriptive: British psychologist John Bowlby, for instance, was liberal about children's behaviour, but less so when it came to that of mothers.
(9) He could maybe relate better to the grandchildren but to us, the children, all he knew is to be a strict disciplinarian and to provide.
(10) This has further rattled the markets as his replacement Nelson Barbosa is less of a fiscal disciplinarian.
(11) Like Le Guen, Lacombe has a reputation as a fierce disciplinarian.
(12) This isn't the charming hero we're used to seeing Pitt play; he's jowly and sulky and racked with a sense of failure, a threatening and disciplinarian family presence.
(13) Buttoned-up, disciplinarian, characterised by an almost corporate efficiency, they outwardly suggest enviable success: every year since 1996, for example, Emmanuel College's GCSE results have put it in the top 12 nonselective British state schools.
(14) Paterno, who was seen at the time as a disciplinarian, then texted two of the players to advise them on avoiding the campus adjudication process.
(15) Relative to anxiety neurotics, the neurotic depressives recalled fathers as unloving disciplinarians and recalled mothers as difficult to please, intrusive and controlling, and possibly more concerned with their own than with their children's needs.
(16) "He trained him as a teenager, saw that raw potential and imagined what it could become - Moyes can talk to Rooney and motivate him as no other manager can by referring to their shared past, and he seems to be at least as stern a disciplinarian as Ferguson, which in the case of Rooney could reap positive rewards, as Ferguson seems to have treated him as a wayward yet still favoured son, occasionally punishing his bad behaviour yet ultimately tolerating off-field bad habits that limit his on-field performance.
(17) So to what extent he was a dictator, or to what extent he was a strict disciplinarian, I really do not know."
(18) The alcoholic women were less accepting, more rejecting, disciplinarian, or overprotecting, and they displayed a significantly greater degree of conflicting attitudes.
(19) We have an idle chat about her pregnancy: she's more keen to talk about it than I expected, confessing that she's not worried about the birth, that she thinks she'll be a "disciplinarian" as a parent, and that "we haven't done anything about a baby room.
(20) Knowing his growing reputation as a hardline disciplinarian, the manager joked that he shot only three players after a wretched first-half display.