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Discipline
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- 1 A controlled behaviour; self-control. countable, uncountable
"The most perfect, who have their passions in the best discipline, are yet obliged to be constantly on their guard."
- 2 training to improve strength or self-control wordnet
- 3 A controlled behaviour; self-control.; An enforced compliance or control. countable, uncountable
"The masters looked unusually stern, but it was the sternness of thought rather than of discipline."
- 4 the act of disciplining wordnet
- 5 A controlled behaviour; self-control.; A systematic method of obtaining obedience. countable, uncountable
"Discipline aims at the removal of bad habits and the substitution of good ones, especially those of order, regularity, and obedience."
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- 6 the trait of being well behaved wordnet
- 7 A controlled behaviour; self-control.; A state of order based on submission to authority. countable, uncountable
"Their wildness lose, and, quitting nature's part, / Obey the rules and discipline of art."
- 8 a system of rules of conduct or method of practice wordnet
- 9 A controlled behaviour; self-control.; A set of rules regulating behaviour. countable, uncountable
- 10 a branch of knowledge wordnet
- 11 A controlled behaviour; self-control.; A punishment to train or maintain control. countable, uncountable
"giving her the discipline of the strap"
- 12 A controlled behaviour; self-control.; A punishment to train or maintain control.; A whip used for self-flagellation. countable, uncountable
"All she had done was give Teena a cilice, a barbed metal chain she was to tie around her thigh for two hours every day, and a discipline, a rope whip with knotted ends she was to use on her back when she prayed the Hail Mary."
- 13 A controlled behaviour; self-control.; A punishment to train or maintain control.; A flagellation as a means of obtaining sexual gratification. countable, uncountable
- 14 A specific branch of knowledge, learning, or practice. countable, uncountable
"Near-synonyms: specialty, speciality, specialism"
- 15 A specific branch of knowledge, learning, or practice.; A category in which a certain art, sport or other activity belongs. countable, uncountable
- 1 To train someone by instruction and practice. transitive
- 2 punish in order to gain control or enforce obedience wordnet
- 3 To teach someone to obey authority. transitive
- 4 develop (a child's or animal's) behavior by instruction and practice; especially to teach self-control wordnet
- 5 To punish someone in order to (re)gain control. transitive
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- 6 To impose order on someone. transitive
Etymology
From Middle English [Term?], from Anglo-Norman, from Old French descipline, from Latin disciplina (“instruction”), from discipulus (“pupil”), influenced by disco (“to learn”), from Proto-Indo-European *dek- (“(cause to) accept”).
From Middle English [Term?], from Anglo-Norman, from Old French descipline, from Latin disciplina (“instruction”), from discipulus (“pupil”), influenced by disco (“to learn”), from Proto-Indo-European *dek- (“(cause to) accept”).
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