3 definitions found From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]: Discipline \Dis"ci*pline\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Disciplined}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Disciplining}.] [Cf. LL. disciplinarian to flog, fr. L. disciplina discipline, and F. discipliner to discipline.] 1. To educate; to develop by instruction and exercise; to train. [1913 Webster] 2. 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. [1913 Webster] Ill armed, and worse disciplined. --Clarendon. [1913 Webster] His mind . . . imperfectly disciplined by nature. --Macaulay. [1913 Webster] 3. To improve by corrective and penal methods; to chastise; to correct. [1913 Webster] Has he disciplined Aufidius soundly? --Shak. [1913 Webster] 4. To inflict ecclesiastical censures and penalties upon. Syn: To train; form; teach; instruct; bring up; regulate; correct; chasten; chastise; punish. [1913 Webster] From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]: disciplined adj 1: obeying the rules 2: trained mentally or physically by instruction or exercise; "the beautiful coordination of his disciplined muscles"; "a disciplined mind" 3: punished for misbehavior; "the chastised child sat humbly in the corner" [syn: {chastised}, {corrected}] From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]: 37 Moby Thesaurus words for "disciplined": Spartan, accepting, armed with patience, bound, bounded, conditioned, confined, copyrighted, cramped, endurant, enduring, finite, forbearing, indulgent, lenient, limited, long-suffering, longanimous, moderated, narrow, patented, patient, patient as Job, persevering, philosophical, prescribed, proscribed, qualified, restricted, self-controlled, stoic, strait, straitened, tolerant, tolerating, tolerative, understanding
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