discipline
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈdɪsɪplɪn/
ipa: /ˈdɪsəplɪn/
ipa: [ˈd̥ɪsɪ̽plɪ̈n]
note: Indic
ipa: /ɖɪˈsɪplɪn/
Forms: form: disciplines
Etymology: From Middle English [Term?], from Anglo-Norman, from Old French descipline, from Latin disciplina (“instruction”), from discipulus (“pupil”), influenced by disco (“to learn”), from Proto-Indo-European *dek- (“(cause to) accept”).
Senses: examples: text: The most perfect, who have their passions in the best discipline, are yet obliged to be constantly on their guard.
ref: a. 1729, John Rogers, The Difficulties of Obtaining Salvation:
glosses: A controlled behaviour; self-control.
examples: text: The masters looked unusually stern, but it was the sternness of thought rather than of discipline.
ref: 1956, Michael Arlen, “1/1/2”, in “Piracy”: A Romantic Chronicle of These Days:
glosses: A controlled behaviour; self-control.
An enforced compliance or control.
examples: text: Discipline aims at the removal of bad habits and the substitution of good ones, especially those of order, regularity, and obedience.
ref: 1871, Charles John Smith, Synonyms Discriminated:
text: Endure hardship as discipline; God is treating you as his children. For what children are not disciplined by their father?
ref: 1973, Bible (New International Version), Hebrews 12:7
glosses: A controlled behaviour; self-control.
A systematic method of obtaining obedience.
examples: text: Their wildness lose, and, quitting nature's part, / Obey the rules and discipline of art.
ref: 1697, Virgil, “The Second Book of the Georgics”, in John Dryden, transl., The Works of Virgil: Containing His Pastorals, Georgics, and Æneis. […], London: […] Jacob Tonson, […], →OCLC:
glosses: A controlled behaviour; self-control.
A state of order based on submission to authority.
glosses: A controlled behaviour; self-control.
A set of rules regulating behaviour.
examples: text: giving her the discipline of the strap
ref: 1712 October 13 (Gregorian calendar), [Joseph Addison; Richard Steele et al.], “THURSDAY, October 2, 1712”, in The Spectator, number 499; republished in Alexander Chalmers, editor, The Spectator; a New Edition, […], volume V, New York, N.Y.: D[aniel] Appleton & Company, 1853, →OCLC:
glosses: A controlled behaviour; self-control.
A punishment to train or maintain control.
examples: text: All she had done was give Teena a cilice, a barbed metal chain she was to tie around her thigh for two hours every day, and a discipline, a rope whip with knotted ends she was to use on her back when she prayed the Hail Mary.
ref: 2024 March 16, Antonia Cundy, “The Opus Dei diaries”, in FT Weekend, page 18:
topics: Catholicism
Christianity
glosses: A controlled behaviour; self-control.
A punishment to train or maintain control.
A whip used for self-flagellation.
glosses: A controlled behaviour; self-control.
A punishment to train or maintain control.
A flagellation as a means of obtaining sexual gratification.
examples: text: Near-synonyms: specialty, speciality
text: academic disciplines
text: Economics is a messy discipline: too fluid to be a science, too rigorous to be an art.
ref: 2013 August 3, “Boundary problems”, in The Economist, volume 408, number 8847:
text: This mathematical discipline, by the help of geometrical principles, doth teach to contrive several weights and powers unto motion or rest.
ref: 1648, John Wilkins, Mathematical Magick:
glosses: A specific branch of knowledge, learning, or practice.
glosses: A specific branch of knowledge, learning, or practice.
A category in which a certain art, sport or other activity belongs.
Synonyms: sense: branch or category
word: field
sense: branch or category
word: sphere
sense: punishment
word: penalty
sense: punishment
word: sanction
Derived terms: academic discipline
antidiscipline
camouflage discipline
counterdiscipline
disciplinability
disciplineless
discipline-specific
disciplinism
disciplinist
home discipline
interdiscipline
market discipline
metadiscipline
multidiscipline
nondiscipline
petticoat discipline
pseudo-discipline
pseudodiscipline
self-discipline
subdiscipline
superdiscipline
time discipline
transdisciplinarian
undiscipline
Related terms: disciple
disciplinal
disciplinarian
disciplinary
discipliner
interdisciplinary
multidisciplinary
castigation
stricture