"discipled" meaning in English

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Adjective

Head templates: {{en-adj|?}} discipled
  1. Having been converted or trained as a disciple or a group of disciples.
    Sense id: en-discipled-en-adj-PZWt1ACN Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, Pages with 1 entry, Pages with entries Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 43 24 22 11 Disambiguation of Pages with 1 entry: 42 23 16 19 Disambiguation of Pages with entries: 67 12 10 11
  2. Appropriate for a disciple; as a disciple.
    Sense id: en-discipled-en-adj-5OzF5uNt
  3. Serving as a student or follower of a mentor or spiritual teacher.
    Sense id: en-discipled-en-adj-MgEWT4bQ
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Derived forms: undiscipled

Verb

Head templates: {{head|en|verb form}} discipled
  1. simple past and past participle of disciple Tags: form-of, participle, past Form of: disciple
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          "ref": "1658, Richard Baxter, Certain Disputations of Right to Sacraments, and the True Nature of Visible Christianity..., page 267:",
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          "ref": "1990, James W. Sire, Discipleship of the Mind, page 26:",
          "text": "The bibliography at the end is simply the best general bibliography I know of toward the development of a discipled mind.",
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          "ref": "2002, Charles E. Lawless, Discipled Warriors, page 17:",
          "text": "Christ set her free, and she is quick to proclaim that she is \"drug free, debt free, and spiritually free.\" Now she serves others as a discipled warrior in a healthy church.",
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          "ref": "2011, Vern Middleton ·, Donald McGavran, His Early Life and Ministry:",
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          "ref": "2013, Dan Wilt, How To Lead Worship Without Being A Rock Star, page 32:",
          "text": "For worship leaders and teams to effectively build a congregation as a discipled community over time, that team must value their personal lives with God over and above the opportunity to express their personal musical gift on a stage.",
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          "ref": "2023, Paul A. Hansen, Thematic Expressions for the Lord's Supper:",
          "text": "See prayer as not just an element of worship but as a powerful tool to shape a discipled character in people.",
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          "text": "These demands have been properly tethered to renewed and repeated scriptural discernment, with the result that scriptural reality resolves exile in different ways: exile, for instance, may refer to a discipled participation in the Cross; or to an ascetic denial and yearning; or to some transtemporal pneumatic embrace; or an agonistic resistance to evil; to penitence; to the long practice of prayer.",
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          "ref": "2017, Freddie Pimm, The Selfish Gospel: Be Transformed by Giving It All:",
          "text": "If we accept a selfish gospel then we have no great motivation to engage with a discipled, sacrificial lifestyle.",
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          "ref": "2018, David Fergusson, The Providence of God: A Polyphonic Approach, page 339:",
          "text": "But an over-stressed insistence on a discipled suffering may impose too much upon those who struggle with sickness, misfortune, guilt and bereavement.",
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          "ref": "2023, Caroline Batchelder, Charged with the Glory of God:",
          "text": "These, I believe, are primary qualifications for a discipled reading.",
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          "ref": "1966, James D. Bales, The Phoenix Papers: If Not Treason, What?, page 75:",
          "text": "Liu Shao-Chi in How To Be A Good Communist which was kept in print for a time in this country, emphasized that the good Communists must be thoroughly discipled in their philosophy of life; whole-heartedly dedicated even unto death; and he must be willing to participate in any phase of the revolutionary activity – all activity is considered to be revolutionary activity.",
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          "ref": "1990, H. Revanasiddappa, Alexander to Zia-ul-Haq, an Astrological Interpretation of History, page 56:",
          "text": "Nanak and his discipled were given a respectful fare well by Baber.",
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          "ref": "2012, Michael J. Svigel, RetroChristianity: Reclaiming the Forgotten Faith, page 263:",
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          "ref": "2024, Fr. Benjamin A Vima, ON THIS DAY Heavenly Food for Spiritual Hunger:",
          "text": "According to him, if we are truly his discipled followers, at the end of the day he will acknowledge us before his Father and grant all that we need not only in this world but also in the world to come.",
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          "ref": "2018, David Fergusson, The Providence of God: A Polyphonic Approach, page 339:",
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