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Discipline   /dˈɪsəplən/   Listen
Discipline

noun
1.
A branch of knowledge.  Synonyms: bailiwick, field, field of study, study, subject, subject area, subject field.  "Teachers should be well trained in their subject" , "Anthropology is the study of human beings"
2.
A system of rules of conduct or method of practice.  "For such a plan to work requires discipline"
3.
The trait of being well behaved.
4.
Training to improve strength or self-control.
5.
The act of punishing.  Synonym: correction.
verb
(past & past part. disciplined; pres. part. disciplining)
1.
Develop (children's) behavior by instruction and practice; especially to teach self-control.  Synonyms: check, condition, train.  "Is this dog trained?"
2.
Punish in order to gain control or enforce obedience.  Synonyms: correct, sort out.



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"Discipline" Quotes from Famous Books



... might suggest itself, though it was little likely ever to be answered. And the absence of all answer to such question was supplied by the gossips of Ravenna, by tales of some terrible crime against ecclesiastical discipline of which the Padre Fabiano had been guilty some sixty years or so ago. Certain it was that be had occupied his dreary position for many years; and it was wonderful that fever and ague and the marsh pestilence had not long ...
— A Siren • Thomas Adolphus Trollope
... a whole world, once. Made myself king. Emperor of all the metal molecules and king of the thorium spurs. And my subjects obeyed my every command." He added, "Thanks to Planeteer discipline. ...
— Rip Foster Rides the Gray Planet • Blake Savage
... may suppose; A hole he made that would a glimpse disclose; By which, when near his cell the females drew, They might, with whip in hand the hermit view, Who, like a culprit punished for his crimes, Received the lash, and that so many times, It sounded like the discipline of schools, And made more noise than flogging ...
— The Tales and Novels, Complete • Jean de La Fontaine
... keep quiet and to close one's lips until the moment when reflection has enabled us to discipline our too-violent emotions, is a quality that belongs only to those who have ...
— Poise: How to Attain It • D. Starke
... emperor being immensely taken with Kirby's method of preserving discipline on board ship, because (as we say to the madman, 'Your strait-waistcoat is my easy-chair') monarchs have a great love of discipline, he begged Countess Fanny's permission that he might invite Captain Kirby to his table; and Countess Fanny (she had ...
— The Shaving of Shagpat • George Meredith


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