The Collaborative International Dictionary
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.]
To educate; to develop by instruction and exercise; to train.
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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.
Ill armed, and worse disciplined.
--Clarendon.His mind . . . imperfectly disciplined by nature.
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To improve by corrective and penal methods; to chastise; to correct.
Has he disciplined Aufidius soundly?
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To inflict ecclesiastical censures and penalties upon.
Syn: To train; form; teach; instruct; bring up; regulate; correct; chasten; chastise; punish.
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vb. (present participle of discipline English)
Usage examples of "disciplining".
Still it is not without reason that that implement is much favored on Gor for the disciplining of females.
A woman behaves very differetnly toward a man whom she knows is capable of disciplining her and may, if it pleases him, do so, then toward one whom she knows she may treat with contempt and scorn with impunity.
Why would he want to take on the responsibility of training and disciplining a strange girl?
Why should he make any reference to a man disciplining a female who deserved it?
And as Mr Cobbler comes directly under my authority I think that the matter of disciplining him may safely be left to me.
Anyone coming upon them suddenly would not have known that the Dean had been rebuking and disciplining his organist.
Robberies which are committed beyond the boundaries of each state bear no infamy, and they avow that these are committed for the purpose of disciplining their youth and of preventing sloth.