Discipline Definition
dĭsə-plĭn
disciplined, disciplines, disciplining
noun
disciplines
Training expected to produce a specific character or pattern of behavior, especially training that produces moral or mental improvement.
Was raised in the strictest discipline.
American Heritage
Training that develops self-control, character, or orderliness and efficiency.
Webster's New World
Strict control to enforce obedience.
Webster's New World
The result of such training or control.
Webster's New World
A state of order based on submission to rules and authority.
A teacher who demanded discipline in the classroom.
American Heritage
Synonyms:
- penalty
- castigation
- chastisement
- punishment
- correction
- willpower
- whip
- train
- teach
- submissionregulation
- specialty
- self-restraint
- self-mortification
- school
- restrain
verb
disciplined, disciplines, disciplining
To subject to discipline; train; control.
Webster's New World
To punish.
Webster's New World
To punish in order to gain control or enforce obedience.
American Heritage
To impose order on.
Needed to discipline their study habits.
American Heritage
Origin of Discipline
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From Middle English, from Anglo-Norman, from Old French descipline, from Latin disciplina (“instruction”) and discipulus (“pupil”), from discere (“to learn”), from Proto-Indo-European *dek- (“(cause to) accept”).
From Wiktionary
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Middle English from Old French descepline from Latin disciplīna from discipulus pupil disciple
From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition
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