[In OE. discipul, ad. L. discipul-us learner, pupil, f. disc{ebreve}re to learn. In early ME. di-, deciple, a. OF. deciple, semi-popular ad. L. discipul-us. Both in OF. and ME., deciple was gradually conformed to the L. spelling as disciple; ME. had occasional variants in -il, -yl, -ul.] | [In OE. discipul, ad. L. discipul-us learner, pupil, f. disc{ebreve}re to learn. In early ME. di-, deciple, a. OF. deciple, semi-popular ad. L. discipul-us. Both in OF. and ME., deciple was gradually conformed to the L. spelling as disciple; ME. had occasional variants in -il, -yl, -ul.] |