0 a person who believes in the ideas and principles of someone famous and tries to live the way that person does or did:
an ardent disciple of Gandhi
1 a person who believes in the ideas of a leader, esp. a religious or political one, and tries to live according to those ideas:
Jesse Jackson was a disciple of Martin Luther King, Jr.
9b), his "atheistic disciples," with their emphasis on the fortuitous and random nature of creation, are deserving of condemnation.
He did not have very many students who were his concern as apprentices and disciples.
Daily pujas conducted by her disciples serve to maintain the energy within the image.
The disciples inform not only the duration of the motet, but also the organisation of the very words through which its message is articulated.
His life's goal was to secure land where he could raise his family, educate his disciples and farm.
The settlement in this village allowed him to assert further his authority and attract disciples.
The same was certainly not true, however, of his disciples.
His conceptual background remained that of preclassicnl nzechanics and only his disciples were the first to reformulate his achievements in these categories of classical mechanics.
