DISCIPLINE
noun
Synonyms
Education; instruction; training; culture; correction; chastisement; punishment.
Definitions
- 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 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. The enforcement of methods of correction against one guilty of ecclesiastical offenses; reformatory or penal action toward a church member.
- 8. Self- inflicted and voluntary corporal punishment, as penance, or otherwise; specifically, a penitential scourge.
- 9. A system of essential rules and duties; as, the Romish or Anglican discipline.
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Added: October 09, 2025
Updated: October 09, 2025