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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]:
disciplined
adj 1: obeying the rules [syn: {under control(p)}]
2: trained mentally or physically by instruction or exercise;
"the beautiful coordination of his disciplined muscles";
"a disciplined mind"
3: punished for misbehavior; "the chastised child sat humbly in
the corner" [syn: {chastised}, {corrected}]
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