discipline

1. n. The treatment suited to a disciple or learner; education; development of the faculties by instruction and exercise; training, whether physical, mental, or moral. Source: opted

2. n. Training to act in accordance with established rules; accustoming to systematic and regular action; drill. Source: opted

3. n. Subjection to rule; submissiveness to order and control; habit of obedience. Source: opted

4. n. Severe training, corrective of faults; instruction by means of misfortune, suffering, punishment, etc. Source: opted

5. n. Correction; chastisement; punishment inflicted by way of correction and training. Source: opted

6. n. The subject matter of instruction; a branch of knowledge. Source: opted

7. n. The enforcement of methods of correction against one guilty of ecclesiastical offenses; reformatory or penal action toward a church member. Source: opted

8. n. Self-inflicted and voluntary corporal punishment, as penance, or otherwise; specifically, a penitential scourge. Source: opted

9. n. A system of essential rules and duties; as, the Romish or Anglican discipline. Source: opted

10. v. t. To educate; to develop by instruction and exercise; to train. Source: opted

11. v. t. 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. Source: opted

12. v. t. To improve by corrective and penal methods; to chastise; to correct. Source: opted

13. v. t. To inflict ecclesiastical censures and penalties upon. Source: opted

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