Part 3179

<blockquote>Those canons . . . were only <b>disciplinary</b>. <i>Bp. Ferne.</i></blockquote>

<blockquote>The evils of the . . . are <b>disciplinary</b> and remedial. <i>Buckminster.</i></blockquote>

<h1>Discipline</h1> <Xpage=420>

<hw>Dis`ci*pline</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <ety>[F. <ets>discipline</ets>, L. <ets>disciplina</ets>, from <ets>discipulus</ets>. See <er>Disciple</er>.]</ety>

<p><b>1.</b> <def>The treatment suited to a disciple or learner; education; development of the faculties by instruction and exercise; training, whether physical, mental, or moral.</def>

<blockquote>Wife and children are a kind of <b>discipline</b> of humanity. <i>Bacon.</i></blockquote>

<blockquote><b>Discipline</b> aims at the removal of bad habits and the substitution of good ones, especially those of order, regularity, and obedience. <i>C. J. Smith.</i></blockquote>

<p><b>2.</b> <def>Training to act in accordance with established rules; accustoming to systematic and regular action; drill.</def>

<blockquote>Their wildness lose, and, quitting nature's part, Obey the rules and <b>discipline</b> of art. <i>Dryden.</i></blockquote>

<p><b>3.</b> <def>Subjection to rule; submissiveness to order and control; habit of obedience.</def>

<blockquote>The most perfect, who have their passions in the best <b>discipline</b>, are yet obliged to be constantly on their guard. <i>Rogers.</i></blockquote>

<p><b>4.</b> <def>Severe training, corrective of faults; instruction by means of misfortune, suffering, punishment, etc.</def>

<blockquote>A sharp <b>discipline</b> of half a century had sufficed to educate <?/s. <i>Macaulay.</i></blockquote>

<p><b>5.</b> <def>Correction; chastisement; punishment inflicted by way of correction and training.</def>

<blockquote>Giving her the <b>discipline</b> of the strap. <i>Addison.</i></blockquote>

<p><b>6.</b> <def>The subject matter of instruction; a branch of knowledge.</def>

<i>Bp. Wilkins.</i></blockquote>

<p><b>7.</b> <fld>(Eccl.)</fld> <def>The enforcement of methods of correction against one guilty of ecclesiastical offenses; reformatory or penal action toward a church member.</def>

<p><b>8.</b> <fld>(R. C. Ch.)</fld> <def>Self- inflicted and voluntary corporal punishment, as penance, or otherwise; specifically, a penitential scourge.</def>

<p><b>9.</b> <fld>(Eccl.)</fld> <def>A system of essential rules and duties; <as>as, the Romish or Anglican <ex>discipline</ex></as>.</def>

<syn>Syn. -- Education; instruction; training; culture; correction; chastisement; punishment.</syn>

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<hw>Dis"ci*pline</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>v. t.</tt> <wordforms>[<tt>imp. & p. p.</tt> <er>Disciplined</er> <tt>(?)</tt>; <tt>p. pr. & vb. n.</tt> <er>Disciplining</er>.]</wordforms> <ety>[Cf. LL. <ets>disciplinarian</ets> to flog, fr. L. <ets>disciplina</ets> discipline, and F. <ets>discipliner</ets> to discipline.]</ety>

<p><b>1.</b> <def>To educate; to develop by instruction and exercise; to train.</def>

<p><b>2.</b> <def>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.</def>

<blockquote>Ill armed, and worse <b>disciplined</b>. <i>Clarendon.</i></blockquote>

<blockquote>His mind . . . imperfectly <b>disciplined</b> by nature. <i>Macaulay.</i></blockquote>

<p><b>3.</b> <def>To improve by corrective and penal methods; to chastise; to correct.</def>