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Definition of Discipline
Dis`ci`pline | n. | 1. | The treatment suited to a disciple or learner; education; development of the faculties by instruction and exercise; training, whether physical, mental, or moral. | | 2. | Training to act in accordance with established rules; accustoming to systematic and regular action; drill. | | 3. | Subjection to rule; submissiveness to order and control; habit of obedience. | | 4. | Severe training, corrective of faults; instruction by means of misfortune, suffering, punishment, etc. | | 5. | Correction; chastisement; punishment inflicted by way of correction and training. | | 6. | The subject matter of instruction; a branch of knowledge. | | 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. | | v. t. | 1. | To educate; to develop by instruction and exercise; to train. | | 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. | | 3. | To improve by corrective and penal methods; to chastise; to correct. | | 4. | To inflict ecclesiastical censures and penalties upon. |
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