Discipline
['dɪsɪplɪn] or ['dɪsəplɪn]
Definition
(noun.) training to improve strength or self-control.
(noun.) the act of punishing; 'the offenders deserved the harsh discipline they received'.
(noun.) the trait of being well behaved; 'he insisted on discipline among the troops'.
(noun.) 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';.
(noun.) 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'.
(verb.) punish in order to gain control or enforce obedience; 'The teacher disciplined the pupils rather frequently'.
(verb.) develop (children's) behavior by instruction and practice; especially to teach self-control; 'Parents must discipline their children'; 'Is this dog trained?'.
Typed by Howard--From WordNet
Definition
(n.) The treatment suited to a disciple or learner; education; development of the faculties by instruction and exercise; training, whether physical, mental, or moral.
(n.) Training to act in accordance with established rules; accustoming to systematic and regular action; drill.
(n.) Subjection to rule; submissiveness to order and control; habit of obedience.
(n.) Severe training, corrective of faults; instruction by means of misfortune, suffering, punishment, etc.
(n.) Correction; chastisement; punishment inflicted by way of correction and training.
(n.) The subject matter of instruction; a branch of knowledge.
(n.) The enforcement of methods of correction against one guilty of ecclesiastical offenses; reformatory or penal action toward a church member.
(n.) Self-inflicted and voluntary corporal punishment, as penance, or otherwise; specifically, a penitential scourge.
(n.) A system of essential rules and duties; as, the Romish or Anglican discipline.
(v. t.) To educate; to develop by instruction and exercise; to train.
(v. t.) 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.
(v. t.) To improve by corrective and penal methods; to chastise; to correct.
(v. t.) To inflict ecclesiastical censures and penalties upon.
Editor: Vanessa
Synonyms and Synonymous
n. [1].Instruction, training, drilling, drill, exercise, education, culture, schooling, breeding.[2].Subjection, control, regulation, government.[3].Punishment, chastisement, correction, castigation.
v. a. [1].Instruct, train, breed, educate, teach, drill, exercise, form, bring up.[2].Regulate, control, govern, school, bring under subjection.[3].Punish, chastise, correct, castigate.
Typist: Weldon
Synonyms and Antonyms
SYN:Order, strictness, training, government, instruction, drilling, control,coercion, punishment, organization
ANT:Disorder, confusion, rebellion, mutiny, encouragement, reward, disorganization
Checked by Beth
Definition
n. instruction: training or mode of life in accordance with rules: subjection to control: order: severe training: mortification: punishment: an instrument of penance or punishment.—v.t. to subject to discipline: to train: to educate: to bring under control: to chastise.—adjs. Dis′ciplinable; Dis′ciplinal.—ns. Dis′ciplinant one who subjects himself to a certain discipline esp. one of an order of Spanish flagellants; Disciplinā′rian one who enforces strict discipline; Disciplinā′rium a scourge for penitential flogging.—adj. Dis′ciplinary of the nature of discipline—n. Dis′cipliner one who disciplines.—First and Second Book of Discipline two documents (1560 and 1578) embodying the constitution and order of procedure of the Church of Scotland from the period of the Reformation.
Checker: Raffles
Examples
- I will discipline my sorrowing heart to sympathy in your joys; I will be happy, because ye are so. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
- These people were people like ourselves, with brains as busy and moody and inconsistent, and with even less training and discipline. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- Now for that of discipline. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
- What I had to do, was, to turn the painful discipline of my younger days to account, by going to work with a resolute and steady heart. Charles Dickens. David Copperfield.
- Discipline prevailed: in five minutes the confused throng was resolved into order, and comparative silence quelled the Babel clamour of tongues. Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.
- For a brief time I wandered, in the sweet guiding of love, far from the purpose to which I had been true under sterner discipline and in darker days. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
- Under all these circumstances I concluded that drill and discipline were worth more to our men than fortifications. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
- They continued for a time his disciplines of the complete subjugation of self; they had their goods in common, they had no bond but love. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- The novel feature of Plato's pedagogy was the plan to educate the directing classes, men disciplined in his own philosophical and ethical conceptions. Walter Libby. An Introduction to the History of Science.
- Except where there is a disciplined disposition, the tendency is for the imagination to run loose. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
- Thereupon (1218) the great host of horsemen that Jengis Khan had consolidated and disciplined swept over the Pamirs and down into Turkestan. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- They were sustained by what seemed an overwhelming force of disciplined troops. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- In a wandering, fighting community the individual must be at once self-reliant and disciplined. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- I was reinforced from time to time and the men were drilled and disciplined preparatory for the service which was sure to come. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
- Now they found a wall built against them, a firm government, and disciplined armies cutting them off from the grass plains. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
Typist: Rosa