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Discipline

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Discipline - Subjection to rule; submissiveness to order and control; habit of obedience.

Discipline - To inflict ecclesiastical censures and penalties upon.

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

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

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

Discipline - 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.

Discipline - Correction; chastisement; punishment inflicted by way of correction and training.

Discipline - The subject matter of instruction; a branch of knowledge.

Discipline - To educate; to develop by instruction and exercise; to train.

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

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

Discipline - To improve by corrective and penal methods; to chastise; to correct.

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


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