From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Discipline \Dis'ci*pline\, noun [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 us. --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 The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Discipline \Dis"ci*pline\, verb (used with an object) [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) 2.0 [wn]:
noun
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}, {bailiwick}, {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}]
verb
1: train by instruction and practice; especially to teach self-control; "Parents must discipline their children"; "Is this dog trained?" [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}]
From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:
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