Definition of discipline
- 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.