3 definitions found
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Discipline \Dis`ci*pline\, n. [F. discipline, L. disciplina,
from discipulus See {Disciple}.]
1. The treatment suited to a disciple or learner; education;
development of the faculties by instruction and exercise;
training, whether physical, mental, or moral.
Wife and children are a kind of discipline of
humanity. --Bacon.
Discipline aims at the removal of bad habits and the
substitution of good ones, especially those of
order regularity, and obedience. --C. J. Smith.
2. Training to act in accordance with established rules
accustoming to systematic and regular action drill.
Their wildness lose, and quitting nature's part
Obey the rules and discipline of art. --Dryden.
3. Subjection to rule submissiveness to order and control;
habit of obedience.
The most perfect, who have their passions in the
best discipline, are yet obliged to be constantly on
their guard. --Rogers.
4. Severe training, corrective of faults; instruction by
means of misfortune, suffering, punishment, etc
A sharp discipline of half a century had sufficed to
educate ?s. --Macaulay.
5. Correction; chastisement; punishment inflicted by way of
correction and training.
Giving her the discipline of the strap. --Addison.
6. The subject matter of instruction; a branch of knowledge.
--Bp. Wilkins.
7. (Eccl.) The enforcement of methods of correction against
one guilty of ecclesiastical offenses; reformatory or
penal action toward a church member.
8. (R. C. Ch.) Self-inflicted and voluntary corporal
punishment, as penance, or otherwise; specifically, a
penitential scourge.
9. (Eccl.) A system of essential rules and duties; as the
Romish or Anglican discipline.
Syn: Education; instruction; training; culture; correction;
chastisement; punishment.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Discipline \Dis"ci*pline\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Disciplined}; p.
pr & vb n. {Disciplining}.] [Cf. LL disciplinarian to
flog, fr L. disciplina discipline, and F. discipliner to
discipline.]
1. To educate; to develop by instruction and exercise; to
train.
2. To accustom to regular and systematic action to bring
under control so as to act systematically; to train to act
together under orders to teach subordination to to form
a habit of obedience in to drill.
Ill armed, and worse disciplined. --Clarendon.
His mind . . . imperfectly disciplined by nature.
--Macaulay.
3. To improve by corrective and penal methods; to chastise;
to correct.
Has he disciplined Aufidius soundly? --Shak.
4. To inflict ecclesiastical censures and penalties upon
Syn: To train; form teach; instruct; bring up regulate;
correct; chasten; chastise; punish.
From WordNet r 1.6 [wn]:
discipline
n 1: a branch of knowledge; "in what discipline is his
doctorate?"; "teachers should be well trained in their
subject"; "anthropology is the study of human beings"
[syn: {subject}, {subject area}, {subject field}, {field},
{field of study}, {study}, {branch of knowledge}]
2: a system of rules of conduct or method of practice; "he
quickly learned the discipline of prison routine" or "for
such a plan to work requires discipline"
3: the trait of being well behaved; "he insisted on discipline
among the troops" [ant: {indiscipline}]
4: training to improve strength or self-control
5: the act of punishing; "the offenders deserved the harsh
discipline they received" [syn: {correction}]
v 1: train by instruction and practice; esp. to teach
self-control; "Parents must discipline their children"
[syn: {train}, {check}, {condition}]
2: punish in order to gain control or enforce obedience; "The
teacher disciplined the pupils rather frequently" [syn: {correct},
{sort out}]
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