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DISCIPLE

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Originally appearing in Volume V08, Page 311 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.

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DISCIPLE , properly a See also:

PUPIL (Lat. pupillus, orphan, minor, dim. of pupus, boy, allied to puer, from root pm- or peu-, to beget, cf. "pupa," Lat. for " doll," the name given to the stage intervening between the larval and imaginal stages in certain insects)

pupil, See also:

SCHOLAR, SCHOLARSHIP

scholar (See also:

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Lat. discipulus, from discere, to learn, and See also:

root seen in pupillus), but chiefly used of the See also:

PERSONAL

personal followers of Jesus See also:

Christ, including the inner circle of the Apostles (q.v.) .

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