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from The Century Dictionary.

  • Pertaining to or characteristic of a disciple: as, discipular patience.

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Examples

  • Ague will be rejuvenated, woman with her ridiculous white bur-den will reach by one step sublime incubation, the manewanting human lioness with her dishorned discipular manram will lie down together publicly flank upon fleece.

    Finnegans Wake 2006

  • Promising writers, such as Hamlin Garland and Brand Whitlock, made discipular pilgrimages to him.

    Chapter 6. Howells and Realism. Section 2. William Dean Howells 1921

  • He teaches that our right relations with the Hero are discipular relations; that we should honestly acknowledge his superiority, look up to him, reverence him.

    Sartor Resartus, and On Heroes, Hero-Worship, and the Heroic in History Thomas Carlyle 1838

  • He was always extremely independent of criticism and disapproval, and though he knew many of my father's friends, through their visits to our house, he had not made friends with them on his own account -- and indeed he had always been so intent on the life he was himself leading, that he had never been, so to speak, one of the Nethinims of the sanctuary; nor had the dependent and discipular attitude, the reverential attachment to venerable persons, been in the least congenial to him.

    Hugh Memoirs of a Brother Arthur Christopher Benson 1893

  • One may smile now and then at the prince's ingenuous zeal, but his fervid respect and devotion for the teacher in whom he thought he had found the wisest man that ever lived, and who had at any rate spoken the word that kindled the love of virtue and truth in him, his eagerness to know what Rousseau thought right, and his equal eagerness in trying to do it, his care to arrange his household in a simple and methodical way to please his master, his discipular patience when

    Rousseau (Volume 1 and 2) John Morley 1880

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