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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]: Discipline \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. [1913 Webster] Wife and children are a kind of discipline of humanity. --Bacon. [1913 Webster] Discipline aims at the removal of bad habits and the substitution of good ones, especially those of order, regularity, and obedience. --C. J. Smith. [1913 Webster] 2. Training to act in accordance with established rules; accustoming to systematic and regular action; drill. [1913 Webster] Their wildness lose, and, quitting nature's part, Obey the rules and discipline of art. --Dryden. [1913 Webster] 3. Subjection to rule; submissiveness to order and control; habit of obedience. [1913 Webster] The most perfect, who have their passions in the best discipline, are yet obliged to be constantly on their guard. --Rogers. [1913 Webster] 4. Severe training, corrective of faults; instruction by means of misfortune, suffering, punishment, etc. [1913 Webster] A sharp discipline of half a century had sufficed to educate us. --Macaulay. [1913 Webster] 5. Correction; chastisement; punishment inflicted by way of correction and training. [1913 Webster] Giving her the discipline of the strap. --Addison. [1913 Webster] 6. The subject matter of instruction; a branch of knowledge. --Bp. Wilkins. [1913 Webster] 7. (Eccl.) The enforcement of methods of correction against one guilty of ecclesiastical offenses; reformatory or penal action toward a church member. [1913 Webster] 8. (R. C. Ch.) Self-inflicted and voluntary corporal punishment, as penance, or otherwise; specifically, a penitential scourge. [1913 Webster] 9. (Eccl.) A system of essential rules and duties; as, the Romish or Anglican discipline. Syn: Education; instruction; training; culture; correction; chastisement; punishment. [1913 Webster] From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]: Discipline \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. [1913 Webster] 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. [1913 Webster] Ill armed, and worse disciplined. --Clarendon. [1913 Webster] His mind . . . imperfectly disciplined by nature. --Macaulay. [1913 Webster] 3. To improve by corrective and penal methods; to chastise; to correct. [1913 Webster] Has he disciplined Aufidius soundly? --Shak. [1913 Webster] 4. To inflict ecclesiastical censures and penalties upon. Syn: To train; form; teach; instruct; bring up; regulate; correct; chasten; chastise; punish. [1913 Webster] From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]: discipline n 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: {discipline}, {subject}, {subject area}, {subject field}, {field}, {field of study}, {study}, {bailiwick}] 2: a system of rules of conduct or method of practice; "he quickly learned the discipline of prison routine"; "for such a plan to work requires discipline"; 3: the trait of being well behaved; "he insisted on discipline among the troops" [ant: {indiscipline}, {undiscipline}] 4: training to improve strength or self-control 5: the act of punishing; "the offenders deserved the harsh discipline they received" [syn: {discipline}, {correction}] v 1: develop (children's) behavior by instruction and practice; especially to teach self-control; "Parents must discipline their children"; "Is this dog trained?" [syn: {discipline}, {train}, {check}, {condition}] 2: punish in order to gain control or enforce obedience; "The teacher disciplined the pupils rather frequently" [syn: {discipline}, {correct}, {sort out}] From French-English FreeDict Dictionary ver. 0.3.4 [fd-fra-eng]: discipline /disiplin/ discipline From Dutch-English Freedict Dictionary ver. 0.1.3 [fd-nld-eng]: discipline /disiplinə/ discipline