Disciple noun [ Middle English disciple , deciple , Old French disciple , from Latin discipulus , from discere to learn (akin to docere to teach; see Docile ) + probably a root meaning to turn or drive , as in Latin pellere to drive (see Pulse ).] 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 , noun , 3, and Campbellite .

Syn. -- Learner; scholar; pupil; follower; adherent.

Disciple transitive verb [ imperfect & past participle Discipled ; present participle & verbal noun Discipling .]
1. To teach; to train. [ Obsolete]

That better were in virtues discipled .

Spenser.

2. To punish; to discipline. [ Obsolete] B. Jonson.

3. To make disciples of; to convert to doctrines or principles. [ R.]

Sending missionaries to disciple all nations.

E. D. Griffin.

Discipleship noun The state of being a disciple or follower in doctrines and precepts. Jer. Taylor.

Discipless noun A female disciple. [ Obsolete]

Disciplinable adjective [ Confer French disciplinable . See Discipline .]
1. Capable of being disciplined or improved by instruction and training.

2. Liable or deserving to be disciplined; subject to disciplinary punishment; as, a disciplinable offense.

Disciplinableness noun The quality of being improvable by discipline. Sir M. Hale.

Disciplinal adjective Relating to discipline. Latham.

Disciplinant noun [ See Discipline .] (Eccl. Hist.) A flagellant. See Flagellant .

Disciplinarian adjective Pertaining to discipline. " Displinarian system." Milman.

Disciplinarian noun
1. 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.

2. A Puritan or Presbyterian; -- because of rigid adherence to religious or church discipline. [ Obsolete]

Disciplinary adjective [ Late Latin disciplinarius flogging: confer French disciplinaire .] Pertaining to discipline; intended for discipline; corrective; belonging to a course of training.

Those canons . . . were only disciplinary .

Bp. Ferne.

The evils of the . . . are disciplinary and remedial.

Buckminster.

Discipline noun [ French discipline , Latin disciplina , from discipulus . See Disciple .]
1. The treatment suited to a disciple or learner; education; development of the faculties by instruction and exercise; training, whether physical, mental, or moral.

Wife and children are a kind of discipline of humanity.

Bacon.

Discipline aims at the removal of bad habits and the substitution of good ones, especially those of order, regularity, and obedience.

C. J. Smith.

2. Training to act in accordance with established rules; accustoming to systematic and regular action; drill.

Their wildness lose, and, quitting nature's part,
Obey the rules and discipline of art.

Dryden.

3. Subjection to rule; submissiveness to order and control; habit of obedience.

The most perfect, who have their passions in the best discipline , are yet obliged to be constantly on their guard.

Rogers.

4. Severe training, corrective of faults; instruction by means of misfortune, suffering, punishment, etc.

A sharp discipline of half a century had sufficed to educate us.

Macaulay.

5. Correction; chastisement; punishment inflicted by way of correction and training.

Giving her the discipline of the strap.

Addison.

6. The subject matter of instruction; a branch of knowledge. Bp. Wilkins.

7. (Eccl.) The enforcement of methods of correction against one guilty of ecclesiastical offenses; reformatory or penal action toward a church member.

8. (R. C. Ch.) Self-inflicted and voluntary corporal punishment, as penance, or otherwise; specifically, a penitential scourge.

9. (Eccl.) A system of essential rules and duties; as, the Romish or Anglican discipline .

Syn. -- Education; instruction; training; culture; correction; chastisement; punishment.

Discipline transitive verb [ imperfect & past participle Disciplined ; present participle & verbal noun Disciplining .] [ Confer Late Latin disciplinarian to flog, from Latin disciplina discipline, and French discipliner to discipline.]
1. To educate; to develop by instruction and exercise; to train.

2. To accustom to regular and systematic action; to bring under control so as to act systematically; to train to act together under orders; to teach subordination to; to form a habit of obedience in; to drill.

Ill armed, and worse disciplined .

Clarendon.

His mind . . . imperfectly disciplined by nature.

Macaulay.

3. To improve by corrective and penal methods; to chastise; to correct.

Has he disciplined Aufidius soundly?

Shak.

4. To inflict ecclesiastical censures and penalties upon.

Syn. -- To train; form; teach; instruct; bring up; regulate; correct; chasten; chastise; punish.

Discipliner noun One who disciplines.

Disclaim transitive verb [ imperfect & past participle Disclaimed ; present participle & verbal noun Disclaiming .]
1. To renounce all claim to deny; ownership of, or responsibility for; to disown; to disavow; to reject.

He calls the gods to witness their offense;
Disclaims the war, asserts his innocence.

Dryden.

He disclaims the authority of Jesus.

Farmer.

2. To deny, as a claim; to refuse.

The payment was irregularly made, if not disclaimed .

Milman.

3. (Law) To relinquish or deny having a claim; to disavow another's claim; to decline accepting, as an estate, interest, or office. Burrill.

Syn. -- To disown; disavow; renounce; repudiate.

Disclaim transitive verb To disavow or renounce all part, claim, or share. Blackstone.

Disclaim in , Disclaim from , to disown; to disavow. [ Obsolete] "Nature disclaims in thee." Shak.

Disclaimer noun
1. One who disclaims, disowns, or renounces.

2. (Law) A denial, disavowal, or renunciation, as of a title, claim, interest, estate, or trust; relinquishment or waiver of an interest or estate. Burrill.

3. A public disavowal, as of pretensions, claims, opinions, and the like. Burke.

Disclamation noun A disavowing or disowning. Bp. Hall.

Disclame transitive verb To disclaim; to expel. [ Obsolete] "Money did love disclame ." Spenser.

Disclaunder transitive verb [ From Middle English disclaundre , noun , for sclandre , esclandre , Old French esclandre . See Sclaundre , Slander .] To injure one's good name; to slander. [ Obsolete]

Discloak transitive verb To take off a cloak from; to uncloak. [ Obsolete] B. Jonson.

Disclose transitive verb [ imperfect & past participle Disclosed ; present participle & verbal noun Disclosing .] [ Middle English desclosen , disclosen , from disclos , desclos , not shut in, open, Old French desclos , past participle of desclore to open, French déclore ; prefix des- (L. dis- ) + clore to shut, from Latin claudere to shut. See Close , and confer Disclusion .]
1. To unclose; to open; -- applied esp. to eggs in the sense of to hatch .

The ostrich layeth her eggs under sand, where the heat of the discloseth them.

Bacon.

2. To remove a cover or envelope from;; to set free from inclosure; to uncover.

The shells being broken, . . . the stone included in them is thereby disclosed and set at liberty.

Woodward.

3. To lay open or expose to view; to cause to appear; to bring to light; to reveal.

How softly on the Spanish shore she plays,
Disclosing rock, and slope, and forest brown!

Byron.

Her lively looks a sprightly mind disclose .

Pope.

4. To make known, as that which has been kept secret or hidden; to reveal; to expose; as, events have disclosed his designs.

If I disclose my passion,
Our friendship 's an end.

Addison.

Syn. -- To uncover; open; unveil; discover; reveal; divulge; tell; utter.

Disclose noun Disclosure. [ Obsolete] Shak. Young.

Disclosed p. adjective (Her.) Represented with wings expanded; -- applied to doves and other birds not of prey. Cussans.

Discloser noun One who discloses.

Disclosure noun [ See Disclose , transitive verb , and confer Closure .]
1. The act of disclosing, uncovering, or revealing; bringing to light; exposure.

He feels it [ his secret] beating at his heart, rising to his throat, and demanding disclosure .

D. Webster.

2. That which is disclosed or revealed.

Were the disclosures of 1695 forgotten?

Macaulay.

Discloud transitive verb To clear from clouds. [ Archaic] Fuller.

Disclout transitive verb To divest of a clout. [ R.]

Disclusion noun [ Latin disclusio , from discludere , disclusum , to separate. See Disclose .] A shutting off; exclusion. [ Obsolete] Dr. H. More.

Discoast intransitive verb [ Prefix dis- + coast : confer Italian discostare .] To depart; to quit the coast (that is, the side or border) of anything; to be separated. [ Obsolete]

As far as heaven and earth discoasted lie.

G. Fletcher.

To discoast from the plain and simple way of speech.

Barrow.

Discoblastic adjective [ Greek ... disk + ... to grow.] (Biol.) Applied to a form of egg cleavage seen in osseous fishes, which occurs only in a small disk that separates from the rest of the egg.

Discobolus noun ; plural Discoboli . [ Latin , from Greek ...; ... a discu + ... to throw.] (Fine Arts) (a) A thrower of the discus. (b) A statue of an athlete holding the discus, or about to throw it.

» The Discobolus of Myron was a famous statue of antiquity, and several copies or imitations of it have been preserved.

Discodactyl noun [ See Discodactylia .] (Zoology) One of the tree frogs.

Discodactylia noun plural [ New Latin , from Greek ... disk + ... finger.] (Zoology) A division of amphibians having suctorial disks on the toes, as the tree frogs.

Discodactylous adjective (Zoology) Having sucking disks on the toes, as the tree frogs.

Discoherent adjective Incoherent. [ R.]

Discoid adjective [ Greek ... quoit-shaped, ... a round plate, quoit + ... form, shape: confer French discoïde . See Disk .] Having the form of a disk, as those univalve shells which have the whorls in one plane, so as to form a disk, as the pearly nautilus.

Discoid flower (Botany) , a compound flower, consisting of tubular florets only, as a tansy, lacking the rays which are seen in the daisy and sunflower.

Discoid noun Anything having the form of a discus or disk; particularly, a discoid shell.

Discoidal adjective [ Confer French discoïdal .] Disk-shaped; discoid.

Discolith noun [ Greek ... a round plate + -lith .] (Biol.) One of a species of coccoliths, having an oval discoidal body, with a thick strongly refracting rim, and a thinner central portion. One of them measures about &frac1x50000; of an inch in its longest diameter.

Discolor transitive verb [ imperfect & past participle Discolored ; present participle & verbal noun Discoloring .] [ Middle English descolouren , Old French descolorer , French décolorer , from Latin dis- + cololare , coloratum , to color, color color. See Color .] [ Written also discolour .]
1. To alter the natural hue or color of; to change to a different color; to stain; to tinge; as, a drop of wine will discolor water; silver is discolored by sea water.

2. To alter the true complexion or appearance of; to put a false hue upon.

To discolor all your ideas.

Watts.

Discolorate transitive verb To discolor. [ R.] Fuller.

Discoloration noun [ Confer French decoloration .]
1. The act of discoloring, or the state of being discolored; alteration of hue or appearance. Darwin.

2. A discolored spot; a stain. Arbuthnot.

Discolored adjective
1. Altered in color; stained.

2. Variegated; of divers colors. [ R.]

That ever wore discolored arms.

Chapman.

Discomfit transitive verb [ imperfect & past participle Discomfited ; present participle & verbal noun Discomfiting .] [ Old French desconfit , past participle of desconfire , French déconfire ; from Latin dis- + conficere to make ready, prepare, bring about. See Comfit , Fact .]
1. To scatter in fight; to put to rout; to defeat.

And his proud foes discomfit in victorious field.

Spenser.

2. To break up and frustrate the plans of; to balk... to throw into perplexity and dejection; to disconcert.

Well, go with me and be not so discomfited .

Shak.

Syn. -- To defeat; overthrow; overpower; vanquish; conquer; baffle; frustrate; confound; discourage.

Discomfit adjective Discomfited; overthrown. [ Obsolete]

Discomfit noun Rout; overthrow; discomfiture.

Such a discomfit as shall quite despoil him.

Milton.

Discomfiture noun [ Old French desconfiture , French déconfiture . See Discomfort , transitive verb , and confer Comfiture .] The act of discomfiting, or the state of being discomfited; rout; overthrow; defeat; frustration; confusion and dejection.

Every man's sword was against his fellow, and there was a very great discomfiture .

1 Sam. xiv. 20.

A hope destined to end . . . in discomfiture and disgrace.

Macaulay.

Discomfort transitive verb [ imperfect & past participle Discomforted ; present participle & verbal noun Discomforting .] [ Old French desconforter , French déconforter , to discourage; prefix des- (L dis- ) + conforter . See Comfort .]
1. To discourage; to deject.

His funeral shall not be in our camp,
Lest it discomfort us.

Shak.

2. To destroy or disturb the comfort of; to deprive of quiet enjoyment; to make uneasy; to pain; as, a smoky chimney discomforts a family.

Discomfort noun [ Old French desconfort , French déconfort . See Discomfort , transitive verb ]
1. Discouragement. [ Obsolete] Shak.

2. Want of comfort; uneasiness, mental or physical; disturbance of peace; inquietude; pain; distress; sorrow. "An age of spiritual discomfort ." M. Arnold.

Strive against all the discomforts of thy sufferings.

Bp. Hall.

Discomfortable adjective [ Confer Old French desconfortable .]
1. Causing discomfort; occasioning uneasiness; making sad. [ Obsolete] Sir P. Sidney.

2. Destitute of comfort; uncomfortable. [ R.]

A labyrinth of little discomfortable garrets.

Thackeray.

-- Dis*com"fort*a*ble*ness , noun [ Obsolete]