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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Disciplinary \Dis"ci*plin*a*ry\, adjective [LL. disciplinarius flogging: cf. F. disciplinaire.] Pertaining to discipline; intended for discipline; corrective; belonging to a course of training.
Those canons . . . were only disciplinary. --Bp. Ferne.
The evils of the . . . are disciplinary and remedial. --Buckminster.
From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:
disciplinary
adjective
1: relating to discipline in behavior; "disciplinary problems in the classroom"
2: relating to a specific field of academic study; "economics in its modern disciplinary sense"
3: designed to promote discipline; "the teacher's action was corrective rather than instructional"; "disciplinal measures"; "the mother was stern and disciplinary" [syn: {corrective}, {disciplinal}]
From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:
41 Moby Thesaurus words for "disciplinary": autodidactic, castigatory, chastening, chastising, coeducational, corrective, cultural, didactic, edifying, educating, educational, educative, enlightening, exhortatory, grueling, homiletic, hortatory, illuminating, inflictive, informative, initiatory, instructive, introductory, lecturing, penal, penological, preaching, preceptive, propaedeutic, punishing, punitive, punitory, retributive, scholarly, scientific, self-teaching, teaching, technical, technicological, technological, tuitionary
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