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.
2. 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.
3. 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.
4. Severe training, corrective of faults; instruction by
means of misfortune, suffering, punishment, etc.
A sharp discipline of half a century had sufficed to
educate ?s. --Macaulay.
5. Correction; chastisement; punishment inflicted by way of
correction and training.
Giving her the discipline of the strap. --Addison.
6. The subject matter of instruction; a branch of knowledge.
--Bp. Wilkins.
7. (Eccl.) The enforcement of methods of correction against
one guilty of ecclesiastical offenses; reformatory or
penal action toward a church member.
8. (R. C. Ch.) Self-inflicted and voluntary corporal
punishment, as penance, or otherwise; specifically, a
penitential scourge.
9. (Eccl.) A system of essential rules and duties; as, the
Romish or Anglican discipline.
Syn: Education; instruction; training; culture; correction;
chastisement; punishment.
2. 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.
--Macaulay.
3. To improve by corrective and penal methods; to chastise;
to correct.
Has he disciplined Aufidius soundly? --Shak.
4. To inflict ecclesiastical censures and penalties upon.
Syn: To train; form; teach; instruct; bring up; regulate;
correct; chasten; chastise; punish.