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n. One of a group made up especially of the 12 disciples chosen by Jesus to preach the gospel.

n. A missionary of the early Christian Church.

n. A leader of the first Christian mission to a country or region.

n. One of the 12 members of the administrative council in the Mormon Church.

n. One who pioneers an important reform movement, cause, or belief: an apostle of conservation.

n. A passionate adherent; a strong supporter.

n. A missionary, or leader of a religious mission, especially one in the early Christian Church (but see Apostle).

n. A pioneer or early advocate of a particular cause, prophet of a belief.

n. A top-ranking ecclesiastical official in the twelve seat administrative council of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.

n. A person who is plucked, i.e. refused an academic degree.

n. A letter dismissory.

n. A note sent to an appeal court presenting the appeal in summary.

n. The trial court record sent to an appeal court concerning an appeal.

n. Literally: One sent forth; a messenger. Specifically: One of the twelve disciples of Christ, specially chosen as his companions and witnesses, and sent forth to preach the gospel.

n. The missionary who first plants the Christian faith in any part of the world; also, one who initiates any great moral reform, or first advocates any important belief; one who has extraordinary success as a missionary or reformer.

n. A brief letter dimissory sent by a court appealed from to the superior court, stating the case, etc.; a paper sent up on appeals in the admiralty courts.

n. A person sent to execute some important business: among the Jews of the Christian epoch, a title borne by persons sent on foreign missions, especially by those commissioned to collect the temple tribute; specifically adopted by Christ as the official title of twelve of his disciples chosen and sent forth to preach the gospel to the world (Luke vi. 13); afterward applied in the New Testament to others who performed apostolic functions, as Paul and Barnabas, and once to Christ himself (Heb. iii. 1).

n. In the Mormon Ch., the title of an official whose duty it is to be a special witness of the name of Christ, to build up and preside over the church, and to administer in all its ordinances.

n. In the liturgy of the early church, and in the modern Greek Church, the lesson from the epistles, usually taken from the writings of St. Paul; also, a book containing these lessons, printed in the order in which they are to be read.

n. In law, a brief statement of a case sent by a court whence an appeal has been taken to a superior court.

n. Nautical, a knighthead or bollard-timber where hawsers and heavy ropes are belayed.

n. any important early teacher of Christianity or a Christian missionary to a people

n. (New Testament) one of the original 12 disciples chosen by Christ to preach his gospel

n. an ardent early supporter of a cause or reform

"That the first Gospel was written by this apostle is the testimony of all antiquity."

believer    truster   

apostles'gems    apostles' ointment    apostles' creed    acts of the apostles   

disciple   

colossal    docile    fossil    jostle    microfossil    postle   

prophet    disciple    preacher    saint    founder    reformer    missionary    advocate    bishop    philosopher