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disciplinary

Word definitions for disciplinary in dictionaries

The Collaborative International Dictionary Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Disciplinary \Dis"ci*plin*a*ry\, a. [LL. disciplinarius flogging: cf. F. disciplinaire.] Pertaining to discipline; intended for discipline; corrective; belonging to a course of training. Those canons . . . were only disciplinary. --Bp. Ferne. The evils ...

Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
adjective COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES a disciplinary procedure ▪ Unacceptable behaviour will be dealt with through our usual disciplinary procedures. COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS ■ NOUN action ▪ Guideline 10: Explain the reasons behind your disciplinary ...

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1590s, from Medieval Latin disciplinarius , from Latin disciplina (see discipline (n.)).

Wiktionary Word definitions in Wiktionary
a. 1 Having to do with discipline, or with the imposition of discipline. 2 For the purpose of imposing punishment. 3 Of or relating to an academic field of study. n. A disciplinary action.

WordNet Word definitions in WordNet
adj. relating to discipline in behavior; "disciplinary problems in the classroom" relating to a specific field of academic study; "economics in its modern disciplinary sense" designed to promote discipline; "the teacher's action was corrective rather than ...

Usage examples of disciplinary.

Even had they been civilians properly domiciled in the United States at the outbreak of the war they would have been subject under the statutes to restraint and other disciplinary action by the President without appeal to the courts.

A clear conception on your part of what drills are disciplinary in character and what discipline really is, will help you to become a disciplined soldier.

The disciplinary institutions, the boundaries of the effectivity of their logics, and their striation of social space all constitute instances of verticality or transcendence over the social plane.

The practical application of these principles can be studied in the Elmira Reformatory of New York, the only prison for felons where the proposed system is carried out with the needed disciplinary severity.

In order to get a good idea of this process it may be enough to read together the disciplinary classics of international law and international economics, linking their observations and prescriptions, which emerge from different disciplinary formations but share a certain neorealism, or really a realism in the Hobbesian sense.

In part, our object of study demands this broad interdisciplinarity, since in Empire the boundaries that might previously have justified narrow disciplinary approaches are increasingly breaking down.

The choir of fifty young women, the Meadows Angels, was a chronic disciplinary problem.

Anyway, the reason for the delay in understanding semiconductor-driven photochemistry seems to be that it fell through the disciplinary cracks.

The oligarchs and tyrants and despots and politicians who ruled their planets by the threat of the Disciplinary Circuit found this new state of affairs deplorable.

All her sacraments, disciplinary offices, instructions and the like, are with the design of helping her children, through the aid of the Divine Spirit, in proving the genuineness of their change of heart by a conspicuous, powerful and beautiful change of life.

Labor-management committees were set up in five thousand factories, as a gesture toward industrial democracy, but they acted mostly as disciplinary groups for absentee workers, and devices for increasing production.

They were shocked at the disciplinary floggings and regarded the system of paying soldiers at so much a day, instead of engaging them by promises of glory and plunder, as most base.

The two of them, along with Ned Pierce and his counterpart, StateSec Citizen Sergeant Jaime Rolla, constituted the informal little group which Yuri relied on to handle disciplinary matters on the superdreadnought.

The daily facts of life in an AA battery, such as semi-serious disciplinary drill, tedious practice alerts, or greasy-messy rifle cleaning, were disposed of with an expression overheard from the tech sergeant: "After all, the essence of being-there is its existence.

Hereupon the Arhats and Bhikshus observant of the rules, to the number in all of 700 monks, examined afresh and collated the collection of disciplinary books.