apostle
pronunciation
How to pronounce apostle in British English:
UK [əˈpɒsl]
How to pronounce apostle in American English:
US [əˈpɑsl]
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- Noun:
- an ardent early supporter of a cause or reform
Word Origin
- apostle
- apostle: [OE] Apostle was an early borrowing into Old English from Latin, and like angel it originally meant ‘messenger’. Latin apostolus came from Greek apóstolos ‘messenger’, or literally ‘someone sent out’; this was a compound formed from the prefix apo- ‘away’ and the verb stéllein ‘send’ (related to English stall and local). The Old English form, apostol, was gradually replaced from the 12th century by apostle, from Old French apostle.=> epistle, local, stall
- apostle (n.)
- Old English apostol "messenger," especially the 12 witnesses sent forth by Jesus to preach his Gospel, from Late Latin apostolus, from Greek apostolos "messenger, person sent forth," from apostellein "send away, send forth," from apo- "from" (see apo-) + stellein in its secondary sense of "to send," from PIE *stel-yo-, suffixed form of root *stel- "to put, stand," with derivatives referring to a standing object or place (see stall (n.1)). Compare epistle. The current form of the word, predominant since 16c., is influenced by Old French apostle (12c.), from the same Late Latin source. Figurative sense of "chief advocate of a new principle or system" is from 1810. Apostles, short for "The Acts and Epistles of the Apostles," is attested from c. 1400.
Example
- 1. But that is scarcely the point the apostle is making here .
- 2. Rigdon led one , and apostle lyman wight took another to texas .
- 3. The apostle paul , in the new testament , follows this pattern .
- 4. And hayek , of course , became the apostle of the chicago school of economics where market fundamentalism originated .
- 5. Focus on your purpose - even when the apostle paul was isolated in a prison , he never stopped living out his purpose .