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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.
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Wife and children are a kind of discipline of humanity. Bacon.
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Discipline aims at the removal of bad habits and the substitution of good ones, especially those of order, regularity, and obedience. C. J. Smith.
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2. Training to act in accordance with established rules; accustoming to systematic and regular action; drill.
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Their wildness lose, and, quitting nature's part,
Obey the rules and discipline of art. Dryden.
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3. Subjection to rule; submissiveness to order and control; habit of obedience.
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The most perfect, who have their passions in the best discipline, are yet obliged to be constantly on their guard. Rogers.
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4. Severe training, corrective of faults; instruction by means of misfortune, suffering, punishment, etc.
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A sharp discipline of half a century had sufficed to educate us. Macaulay.
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5. Correction; chastisement; punishment inflicted by way of correction and training.
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Giving her the discipline of the strap. Addison.
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6. The subject matter of instruction; a branch of knowledge. Bp. Wilkins.
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7. (Eccl.) The enforcement of methods of correction against one guilty of ecclesiastical offenses; reformatory or penal action toward a church member.
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8. (R. C. Ch.) Self-inflicted and voluntary corporal punishment, as penance, or otherwise; specifically, a penitential scourge.
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9. (Eccl.) A system of essential rules and duties; as, the Romish or Anglican discipline.

Syn. -- Education; instruction; training; culture; correction; chastisement; punishment.
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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.
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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.
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Ill armed, and worse disciplined. Clarendon.
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His mind . . . imperfectly disciplined by nature. Macaulay.
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3. To improve by corrective and penal methods; to chastise; to correct.
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Has he disciplined Aufidius soundly? Shak.
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4. To inflict ecclesiastical censures and penalties upon.

Syn. -- To train; form; teach; instruct; bring up; regulate; correct; chasten; chastise; punish.
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