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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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