condisciple

American  

[kon-duh-sahy-puhl] / ˌkɒn dəˈsaɪ pəl /

noun

1. a fellow student or disciple.

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Etymology

Origin of condisciple

1375–1425; late Middle English < Latin condiscipulus schoolmate. See con-, disciple

Example Sentences

Of all of which ingenuous intensity and activity I should have been a much scanter witness than his then close condisciple, my brother, had not his personal kindness, that of the good-natured and amused elder youth to the enslaved, the yearningly gullible younger, charmed me often into a degree of participation.

From Project Gutenberg

He slew in his maiden battle three kings, and in his fury he also slew by mischance his own friend and condisciple Linné.

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This was an offer on the part of the Prince of Conti, who had been his condisciple at college, to create Moli�re his secretary.

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If you visit me as a farmer, it must be as a condisciple: for I am but a learner; an eager one indeed, but yet desperate, being too old now to learn a new art.

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He slew in his maiden battle three kings, and in his fury he also slew by mischance his own friend and condisciple Linne.

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