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Definitions for Discipline
[1] training to act in accordance with rules; drill: military discipline.
[2] activity, exercise, or a regimen that develops or improves a skill; training: A daily stint at the typewriter is excellent discipline for a writer.
[3] punishment inflicted by way of correction and training.
[4] the rigor or training effect of experience, adversity, etc.: the harsh discipline of poverty.
[5] behavior in accord with rules of conduct; behavior and order maintained by training and control: good discipline in an army.
[6] a set or system of rules and regulations.
[7] Ecclesiastical . the system of government regulating the practice of a church as distinguished from its doctrine.
[8] an instrument of punishment, especially a whip or scourge, used in the practice of self-mortification or as an instrument of chastisement in certain religious communities.
[9] a branch of instruction or learning: the disciplines of history and economics.
[10] to train by instruction and exercise; drill.
[11] to bring to a state of order and obedience by training and control.
[12] to punish or penalize in order to train and control; correct; chastise.
[13] training or conditions imposed for the improvement of physical powers, self-control, etc
[14] systematic training in obedience to regulations and authority
[15] the state of improved behaviour, etc, resulting from such training or conditions
[16] punishment or chastisement
[17] a system of rules for behaviour, methods of practice, etc
[18] a branch of learning or instruction
[19] the laws governing members of a Church
[20] a scourge of knotted cords
[21] to improve or attempt to improve the behaviour, orderliness, etc, of by training, conditions, or rules
[22] to punish or correct
Words related to Discipline
control, development, restraint, practice, self-restraint, will, regulation, preparation, self-control, education, method, curriculum, limitation, strictness, indoctrination, willpower, cultivation, curb, drill, conduct
Words nearby Discipline
disciples of christ, disciplinable, disciplinant, disciplinarian, disciplinary, discipline, disciplined, discission, discitis, disclaim, disclaimer
Origin of Discipline
1175–1225; Middle English < Anglo-French < Latin disciplīna instruction, tuition, equivalent to discipul(us ) disciple + -ina -ine2
Other words from Discipline
dis·ci·pli·nal [dis -uh -pluh -nl, -plin-l, dis-uh -plahyn -l] /ˈdɪs ə plə nl, -ˌplɪn l, ˌdɪs əˈplaɪn l/ , adjective
dis·ci·plin·er , noun
mul·ti·dis·ci·pline , noun
non·dis·ci·plin·ing , adjective
o·ver·dis·ci·pline , verb, o·ver·dis·ci·plined, o·ver·dis·ci·plin·ing.
pre·dis·ci·pline , noun, verb (used with object), pre·dis·ci·plined, pre·dis·ci·plin·ing.
re·dis·ci·pline , verb (used with object), re·dis·ci·plined, re·dis·ci·plin·ing.
sub·dis·ci·pline , noun
Word origin for Discipline
C13: from Latin disciplīna teaching, from discipulus disciple
Synonyms for Discipline
control, development, education, method, practice, preparation, regulation, restraint, self-control, self-restraint, will, conduct, cultivation, curb, domestication, drill, drilling, exercise, inculcation, indoctrination, limitation, orderliness, self-command, self-government, strictness, subordination, willpower, self-mastery