Definition for DIS'CI-PLINE


  1. To instruct or educate; to inform the mind; to prepare by instructing in correct principles and habits; as, to discipline youth for a profession, or for future usefulness.
  2. To instruct and govern; to teach rules and practice, and accustom to order and subordination; as, to discipline troops or an army.
  3. To correct; to chastise; to punish.
  4. To execute the laws of the church on offenders, with a view to bring them to repentance and reformation of life.
  5. To advance and prepare by instruction. – Milton.

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