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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Disciplinary \Dis"ci*plin*a*ry\, a. [LL. disciplinarius
     flogging: cf. F. disciplinaire.]
     Pertaining to discipline; intended for discipline;
     corrective; belonging to a course of training.
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           Those canons . . . were only disciplinary. --Bp. Ferne.
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           The evils of the . . . are disciplinary and remedial.
                                                    --Buckminster.
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From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  disciplinary
       adj 1: relating to discipline in behavior; "disciplinary problems
              in the classroom"
       2: relating to a specific field of academic study; "economics
          in its modern disciplinary sense"
       3: designed to promote discipline; "the teacher's action was
          corrective rather than instructional"; "disciplinal
          measures"; "the mother was stern and disciplinary" [syn: {corrective},
           {disciplinal}]

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  41 Moby Thesaurus words for "disciplinary":
     autodidactic, castigatory, chastening, chastising, coeducational,
     corrective, cultural, didactic, edifying, educating, educational,
     educative, enlightening, exhortatory, grueling, homiletic,
     hortatory, illuminating, inflictive, informative, initiatory,
     instructive, introductory, lecturing, penal, penological,
     preaching, preceptive, propaedeutic, punishing, punitive, punitory,
     retributive, scholarly, scientific, self-teaching, teaching,
     technical, technicological, technological, tuitionary
  
  

















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