Disciple vs Adept - What's the difference?
disciple | adept |
A person who learns from another, especially one who then teaches others.
An active follower or adherent of someone, or some philosophy etc.
* Holy Bible, Matthew 9:10 (King James Version)
* {{quote-book, year=1922, author=(Ben Travers)
, chapter=4, title= (Ireland) Miserable-looking creature of a man.
(obsolete) To train, educate, teach.
* 1590 , Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene , IV.i:
Well skilled; completely versed; thoroughly proficient
* 1837-1839 ,
One fully skilled or well versed in anything; a proficient; as, adepts in philosophy.
* 1841 , , Barnaby Rudge :
* 1894-95 , , Jude the Obscure :
As nouns the difference between disciple and adept
is that disciple is a person who learns from another, especially one who then teaches others while adept is one fully skilled or well versed in anything; a proficient; as, adepts in philosophy.As a verb disciple
is to train, educate, teach.As an adjective adept is
well skilled; completely versed; thoroughly proficient.disciple
English
Noun
(en noun)- And it came to pass, as Jesus sat at meat in the house, behold, many publicans and sinners came and sat down with him and his disciples .
A Cuckoo in the Nest, passage=By some paradoxical evolution rancour and intolerance have been established in the vanguard of primitive Christianity. Mrs. Spoker, in common with many of the stricter disciples of righteousness, was as inclement in demeanour as she was cadaverous in aspect.}}
Synonyms
* studentSee also
* apostleVerb
(discipl)- fraile youth is oft to follie led, / Through false allurement of that pleasing baite, / That better were in vertues discipled [...].
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English
Adjective
(en-adj)- Adept as she was, in all the arts of cunning and dissimulation, the girl Nancy could not wholly conceal the effect which the knowledge of the step she had taken, wrought upon her mind.
Synonyms
* See alsoAntonyms
* ineptNoun
(en noun)- When he had achieved this task, he applied himself to the acquisition of stable language, in which he soon became such an adept , that he would perch outside my window and drive imaginary horses with great skill, all day.
- Others, alas, had an instinct towards artificiality in their very blood, and became adepts in counterfeiting at the first glimpse of it.
