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Discipline   /dˈɪsəplən/   Listen
Discipline

noun
1.
A branch of knowledge.  Synonyms: bailiwick, field, field of study, study, subject, subject area, subject field.  "Teachers should be well trained in their subject" , "Anthropology is the study of human beings"
2.
A system of rules of conduct or method of practice.  "For such a plan to work requires discipline"
3.
The trait of being well behaved.
4.
Training to improve strength or self-control.
5.
The act of punishing.  Synonym: correction.
verb
(past & past part. disciplined; pres. part. disciplining)
1.
Develop (children's) behavior by instruction and practice; especially to teach self-control.  Synonyms: check, condition, train.  "Is this dog trained?"
2.
Punish in order to gain control or enforce obedience.  Synonyms: correct, sort out.



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"Discipline" Quotes from Famous Books



... you make us laymen of the tribe of Issachar. You make asses of us, to bear your burthens. When we are young, you put panniers upon us with your church-discipline; and when we are grown up, you load us with a wife: after that, you procure for other men, and then you load our wives too. A fine phrase you have amongst you to draw us into marriage, you call it—settling ...
— The Works of John Dryden, Vol. 6 (of 18) - Limberham; Oedipus; Troilus and Cressida; The Spanish Friar • John Dryden

... the sole advantage of an upper class. Of course that view is altogether wrong, but it would be held. The paper-mill, being quite a novel enterprise, excites new thoughts. It offers the independence these people desire, and yet it exacts an obvious discipline. It establishes a social group corresponding exactly to the ideal organism which evolution will some day produce: on the one hand ordinary human beings understanding their obligations and receiving their due; on the other, a superior ...
— Our Friend the Charlatan • George Gissing

... pipe after they had gone, and for some time sat smoking and thinking over the events of the evening. Then Mr. Tasker's second infringement of discipline occurred to him, and, stretching out his hand, he ...
— Dialstone Lane, Complete • W.W. Jacobs

... especially, as they had little reason, from what they had hitherto seen, to dread the effects of our fire-arms. Indeed, contrary to the expectations of every one, this sort of weapon had produced no signs of terror in them. On our side, such was the condition of the ships, and the state of discipline amongst us, that had a vigorous attack been made on us in the night, it would have been impossible to answer for ...
— A General History and Collection of Voyages and Travels, Volume 16 • Robert Kerr

... labors of Leo to preserve the integrity of the received faith among the semi-barbaric western nations, his efforts were equally great to heal the disorders of the Church. He reformed ecclesiastical discipline in Africa, rent by Arian factions and Donatist schismatics. He curtailed the abuses of metropolitan tyranny in Gaul. He sent his legates to preside over the councils of Ephesus and Chalcedon. He sat in judgment between Vienna and Arles. He fought for the independence ...
— Beacon Lights of History, Volume IV • John Lord


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