Hypertext Webster Gateway: "disciplinary"

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)

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 of the . . . are disciplinary and remedial.
--Buckminster.

From WordNet (r) 1.7 (wn)

disciplinary
adj 1: relating to discipline in behavior; "disciplinary problems
in the classroom"
2: relating to a specific field of academic study; "economics
in its modern disciplinary sense"
3: designed to promote discipline; "the teacher's action was
corrective rather than instructional"; "disciplinal
measures"; "the mother was stern and disciplinary" [syn: {corrective},
{disciplinal}]


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