discipline

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1. 1.Training to act in accordance with established rules; accustoming to systematic and regular action; drill. Their wildness lose, and, quitting nature's part, Obey the rules and discipline of art. Dryden.
2. 2.Subjection to rule; submissiveness to order and control; habit of obedience. The most perfect, who have their passions in the best discipline, are yet obliged to be constantly on their guard. Rogers.
3. 3.Severe training, corrective of faults; instruction by means of misfortune, suffering, punishment, etc. A sharp discipline of half a century had sufficed to educate Macaulay.
4. 4.Correction; chastisement; punishment inflicted by way of correction and training. Giving her the discipline of the strap. Addison.
5. 5.The subject matter of instruction; a branch of knowledge. Bp. Wilkins.
6. 6.(Eccl.) The enforcement of methods of correction against one guilty of ecclesiastical offenses; reformatory or penal action toward a church member.
7. 7.(R. C. Ch.) Self- inflicted and voluntary corporal punishment, as penance, or otherwise; specifically, a penitential scourge.
8. 8.(Eccl.) A system of essential rules and duties; as, the Romish or Anglican discipline.
9. 9.To educate; to develop by instruction and exercise; to train.
10. 10.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. Ill armed, and worse disciplined. Clarendon. His mind . . . imperfectly disciplined by nature. Macaulay.
11. 11.To improve by corrective and penal methods; to chastise; to correct. Has he disciplined Aufidius soundly Shak.
12. 12.To inflict ecclesiastical censures and penalties upon.

Source: Webster's Unabridged Dictionary, 1913 edition (public domain, via GCIDE / Project Gutenberg).

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• What is subjection to rule; submissiveness to order and control; habit of obedience. The most perfect, who have their passions in the best discipline, are yet obliged to be constantly on their guard. Rogers called?
• What is severe training, corrective of faults; instruction by means of misfortune, suffering, punishment, etc. A sharp discipline of half a century had sufficed to educate Macaulay called?
• What is correction; chastisement; punishment inflicted by way of correction and training. Giving her the discipline of the strap. Addison called?
• What is the subject matter of instruction; a branch of knowledge. Bp. Wilkins called?
• What is the enforcement of methods of correction against one guilty of ecclesiastical offenses; reformatory or penal action toward a church member called?
• What is self- inflicted and voluntary corporal punishment, as penance, or otherwise; specifically, a penitential scourge called?
• What is a system of essential rules and duties; as, the Romish or Anglican discipline called?
• What is to educate; to develop by instruction and exercise; to train called?
• What is to improve by corrective and penal methods; to chastise; to correct. Has he disciplined Aufidius soundly Shak called?
• What is to inflict ecclesiastical censures and penalties upon called?