Discipline

·vt To inflict ecclesiastical censures and penalties upon.

II. Discipline ·noun The subject matter of instruction; a branch of knowledge.

III. Discipline ·noun Subjection to rule; submissiveness to order and control; habit of obedience.

IV. Discipline ·noun A system of essential rules and duties; as, the Romish or Anglican discipline.

V. Discipline ·noun Correction; chastisement; punishment inflicted by way of correction and training.

VI. Discipline ·noun Severe training, corrective of faults; instruction by means of misfortune, suffering, punishment, ·etc.

VII. Discipline ·noun Training to act in accordance with established rules; accustoming to systematic and regular action; drill.

VIII. Discipline ·vt To Educate; to develop by instruction and exercise; to Train.

IX. Discipline ·noun Self-inflicted and voluntary corporal punishment, as penance, or otherwise; specifically, a penitential scourge.

X. Discipline ·vt To improve by corrective and penal methods; to Chastise; to Correct.

XI. Discipline ·noun The enforcement of methods of correction against one guilty of ecclesiastical offenses; reformatory or penal action toward a church member.

XII. Discipline ·noun The treatment suited to a disciple or learner; education; development of the faculties by instruction and exercise; training, whether physical, mental, or moral.

XIII. Discipline ·vt 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.