01 n. The treatment suited to a disciple or learner; education; development of the faculties by instruction and exercise; training, whether physi…
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Correction; chastisement; punishment inflicted by way of correction and training.“Giving her the discipline of the strap.” — Addison.
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The subject matter of instruction; a branch of knowledge.
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The enforcement of methods of correction against one guilty of ecclesiastical offenses; reformatory or penal action toward a church member.(Eccl.)
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Self-inflicted and voluntary corporal punishment, as penance, or otherwise; specifically, a penitential scourge.(R. C. Ch.)
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A system of essential rules and duties; as, the Romish or Anglican discipline.(Eccl.)
Syn.
Education; instruction; training; culture; correction; chastisement; punishment.