disciplinen.
/ˈdɪsᵻplᵻn/, U.S. /ˈdɪsəplən/ I. Senses relating to punishment.
1. Christian Church. Punishment or chastisement either imposed by ecclesiastical authority or voluntarily undertaken as penance; esp. mortification of the flesh (as by fasting, scourging, etc.) as a token of repentance and as a means of satisfaction for sin. Also: a penitential act of this sort.
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a1225 ( Rule St. Benet (Winteney) (1888) lv. 113 Gyf hi hwa habbe..þæt heo fram hire abbodesse ne onfeng.., underlicge þeo þære hefeȝestan & þære stiðesten discepline [OE Corpus Cambr. þreale; L. disciplinae].
a1225 (c1200) Vices & Virtues (1888) 125 Apprehendite disciplinam..Nemeð discipline of alle ðe misdades ðe ȝe deð..mid fasten..wake..wope and sare beriwsinge.
c1300 St. Thomas Becket (Laud) l. 2345 in C. Horstmann Early S.-Eng. Legendary (1887) 173 Of euerech Monek of þe hous he tok is discipline With a smart ȝeorde.
1340 Ayenbite (1866) 236 Hit be-houeþ þet uless [= flesh] beate and wesse be dissiplines and be hardnesses.
a1425 Rule St. Benet (Lansd.) (1902) 7 Yef any sal take discipline, gruching sal sho make nane.
1483 tr. Adam of Eynsham Reuelation iii Alle that were there with grete [con]tricion of herte toke discyplynys of roddys.
1509 J. Fisher Mornynge Remembraunce Countesse of Rychemonde (de Worde) sig. Aiv Ye blessyd Martha is praysed in chastysynge her body by crysten dyscyplyne.
1567 W. Allen Treat. Def. Priesthod 228 In most Churches there remaineth a smal signe, by disciplin geven to ye people with rods on ye same daies.
1620 T. Shelton tr. M. de Cervantes 2nd Pt. Don Quixote iv. xxv. 277 They did institute Rogations, Processions, and Disciplines throughout all that Country.
1686 J. S. Hist. Monastical Convent. 34 If any be found unchast, she receives three Disciplines or Scourgings.
1769 W. Robertson Hist. Charles V III. xii. 415 As an expiation for his sins, he gave himself the discipline in secret with such severity, that the whip of cords which he employed..were found after his decease tinged with his blood.
1855 Crayon 21 June 392/2 To these preparatives [sc. prayer, fasting, and the Eucharist] Luis de Varzas added the occasional discipline of the scourge.
1888 ‘Bernard’ From World to Cloister v. 113 The corporal austerities which are known as ‘the discipline’.
1902 tr. in Yorks. Archæol. Jrnl. 16 458 To fast every Friday, and sit on the ground and receive a discipline.
1975 J. A. Hardon Catholic Catech. xv. 562 The intercession of confessors..was allowed by the ecclesiastical authorities to shorten the canonical discipline of those under penance.
2009 J. Kerr Life in Medieval Cloister vii. 146 Anyone who remained away for more than a week but less than forty days received in addition fifteen disciplines and was excluded from communion for a year.
2. gen. Punishment (esp. physical punishment) imposed with the intention of controlling or correcting future behaviour; castigation for a misdemeanour or transgression, usually with the implication of being salutary to the recipient; chastisement. Also: an instance of this.
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society > authority > punishment > [noun] > corrective
chastiment?c1225
yard?c1225
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c1350 Psalter (BL Add. 17376) in K. D. Bülbring Earliest Compl. Eng. Prose Psalter (1891) xxii. 5 (MED) Þy discipline [L. virga] and þyn amendyng conforted me.
a1393 J. Gower Confessio Amantis (Fairf.) v. 5326 This sterne king..Tok every day on of the Nyne, And put him to the discipline Of Minotaure, to be devoured.
a1460 Knyghthode & Bataile (Pembr. Cambr. 243) 871 If a knyght offende, At his precepte he was put to juesse By the trybune..His cure it was tordeyn, and disciplyne Vnto euery man, seuerous or benygne.
1613 J. Florio tr. M. de Montaigne Ess. (rev. ed.) ii. i. 187 Uenus hirself ministreth resolution and hardinesse vnto tender youth as yet subject to the discipline of the rod, and teacheth the ruthlesse Souldier.
a1652 R. Brome Court Begger v. i. sig. R6, in Five New Playes (1653) Cou. Prethee forbeare him: Hee's not worth thy anger. Sw. Anger! Is every Schoole-master angry that gives Discipline with correction?
1693 J. Locke Some Thoughts conc. Educ. 96 There will be but very few Occasions of that Discipline [sc. beating] to be used by any one, who considers well, and orders his Child's Education as it should be.
1704 T. Brown tr. C. García France & Spain naturally Enemies i. 5 Some Malefactor that was receiving the wholesome Discipline of a Dog-Whip in the streets for nimming of Cloaks, or stealing of Silver Spoons.
c1790 J. Willock Voy. diverse parts 36 With a rope's-end..he continued this discipline till he rendered me incapable of moving.
1811 Sporting Mag. 37 133 [She] came in for her share of the discipline which her husband was undergoing.
1883 J. W. Buel Myst. & Miseries America's Great Cities 196 The indignant wife produced her cowhide, and..assailed the wench whom her husband was coddling, and administered a discipline which might be an example for any Delaware sheriff.
1903 C. G. Harper Stage-coach & Mail in Days of Yore II. x. 242 A scientific punisher of refractory horses..accompanying the corrective discipline of the whip with much grim humour.
1978 Family Law Q. 12 2 [The parent] may impose reasonable discipline, including corporal discipline, upon his child for the purposes of correction and training.
2011 Star Tribune (Minneapolis) (Nexis) 20 Mar. 16 c Fines were often the harshest discipline imposed this past season.
3. concrete. An instrument of chastisement; a whip, a scourge; esp. one used for religious penance.
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society > authority > punishment > corporal punishment > instrument or place of corporal punishment > [noun] > whip or scourge > esp. for religious penance
discipline1586
society > faith > worship > sacrament > confession > penance > [noun] > by beating > instrument for
discipline1586
kavadi1954
1586 R. Crowley Fryer Iohn Frauncis: Replication to Lewde Aunswere Ep. Ded. sig. *iv Then wyll I..whyppe my selfe with a discipline, as Fryer John doth nowe whyppe himselfe there.
1622 H. Peacham Compl. Gentleman xii. 120 By chastity standeth pennance, hauing driuen away with her discipline winged Loue.
1630 J. Wadsworth Eng. Spanish Pilgrime (new ed.) iii. 20 Approaching his bed side with two good disciplines in their hands, the ends of some stucke with wyery prickes, they did..raze his skinne.
1707 J. Stevens tr. F. de Quevedo Comical Wks. 286 The Whipsters..laid aside their Disciplines.
1784 London Mag. Sept. 196/1 The abbess condemned them both to receive every morning a dozen of stripes with a discipline.
1825 W. Scott Talisman iv, in Tales Crusaders III. 95 On the floor lay a discipline, or penitential scourge.
1848 J. H. Newman Loss & Gain iii. x. 376 In the cell..hangs an iron discipline or scourge, studded with nails.
1949 E. Waugh Let. 12 Apr. (1980) 296 I saw a lovely reproduction..of a nun by candle light with a discipline. Very erotic.
2001 C. Howse Pilgrim in Spain ix. 139 On Fridays, when bread and water was his food, John was brought to the refectory and knelt as the brethren of the eight-strong monastery scourged him with a discipline.
II. Senses relating to training, instruction, or method.† 8. Training or experience in the practice of arms, military manoeuvres, tactics, etc.; knowledge of military matters; martial skill or expertise. Obsolete.† 9. Medical regimen (regimen n. 1a); an instance of this. Obsolete. rare.
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a. Instruction or teaching intended to mould the mind and character and instil a sense of proper, orderly conduct and action; training to behave or act in a controlled and effective manner; mental, intellectual, moral, or spiritual training or exercise. Also applied to the effect of an experience or undertaking (as, study, adversity, etc.) considered as imparting such training.Sometimes difficult to distinguish from sense 2, esp. in contexts where punishment is employed to reinforce such training.
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society > education > teaching > training > [noun] > discipline
tuhtc1275
tuhtlec1275
chastisement1340
disciplinec1350
doctrinea1483
disciplinatinga1586
disciplination1662
c1350 Psalter (BL Add. 17376) in K. D. Bülbring Earliest Compl. Eng. Prose Psalter (1891) xvii. 39 (MED) And þy discipline [L. disciplina] amended me on ende, and þy discipline onlich shal teche me.
a1393 J. Gower Confessio Amantis (Fairf.) v. l. 6731 This Maiden..hadde be..Under hir moder discipline A clene Maide and a Virgine.
R. Misyn tr. R. Rolle Mending of Life 112 Qwhat is disciplyne bot settyng of maners or correctynge?..Be disciplyne we ar taght rightwysnes, & of ill correctyd.
1573 T. Cooper Briefe Expos. f. 345 He [sc. God] maketh it to them as a Schoole of discipline to retaine them in more Feare of his name, that they be not caried away with the wicked Allurements of the worlde.
1612 F. Bacon Ess. (new ed.) 26 Certainely, wife and children are a kinde of discipline of humanity.
1697 J. Dryden tr. Virgil Georgics iii, in tr. Virgil Wks. 106 The pamper'd Colt will Discipline disdain. View more context for this quotation
1736 Bp. J. Butler Analogy of Relig. i. v. 80 The present Life was intended to be a State of Discipline for a future one.
1741 C. Middleton Hist. Life Cicero I. vi. 461 Caelius..was a young Gentleman..trained under the discipline of Cicero himself.
1849 T. B. Macaulay Hist. Eng. II. 240 A mind on which all the discipline of experience and adversity had been exhausted in vain.
1857 J. Ruskin Polit. Econ. Art i. 23 The notion of Discipline and Interference lies at the very root of all human progress or power.
1862 B. Brodie Psychol. Inq. II. v. 177 No part of early education is more important than the discipline of the imagination.
1892 B. F. Westcott Gospel of Life 270 Every sorrow and pain is an element of discipline.
1921 J. Jastrow Char. & Temperament iv. 189 The natural tendency in a highly socialized individual to respond to the approval and disapproval of others..is reenforced and directed by discipline of parent and teacher and world at large.
1933 Jrnl. Nat. Assoc. Biblical Instructors 1 12/2 The student who approaches the Bible from an historical viewpoint has opportunity then for valuable intellectual discipline.
2012 Daily Tel. (Nexis) 30 Mar. Pupils are being allowed to run wild..because of a lack of proper discipline in the home, it was claimed.
b. An activity, experience, exercise, etc., which provides such instruction or training.
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society > education > learning > study > subject or object of study > [noun] > project or activity
discipline1785
project1916
activity1923
1785 T. Reid Ess. Intellect. Powers xxii. 297 His suffering proves a salutary discipline, and makes him for the future avoid the cause of it.
1811 Monthly Mag. Nov. 322/2 It would be difficult to ascertain the different degrees of utility which the different branches of the mathematical sciences possess; but it is sufficient to observe that, as a discipline of the mind, they have, all of them, a considerable degree of utility.
1890 Musical Times 1 Mar. 151/1 It would be a beneficial discipline to him..were he to perfect himself in the art of writing counterpoint before offering other compositions for public judgment.
1908 C. C. Gaines Simplified Phonetic Shorthand (rev. ed.) xxvi. 90 As a valuable intellectual discipline we have arranged a series of exercises for the study of synonyms and homonyms.
1974 Black Belt July 19/2 Tai chi chuan..was not originally developed as a martial art, but rather as a discipline with emphasis on self-control and total self-awareness.
1983 Texas Monthly July 148/2 The light box was a valuable discipline for Corpron, but she got her best and most personal pictures when she once again took her camera outside its rigid proscenium.
2012 Daily Tel. (Nexis) 7 Apr. (Gardening section) 9 A useful discipline is to get used to using a watering can. You'll have no choice if your water company has imposed a hosepipe ban, and the exercise will do you good.
5. † a. Instruction as given to disciples, scholars, etc.; schooling, teaching. Also: the result of this; education, learning, knowledge. Obsolete.
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society > education > teaching > [noun]
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wissingc1000
wordloreOE
teachingc1175
kenningc1320
lering1377
learningc1380
disciplinea1382
doctrinec1384
ensignment1398
instruction?a1439
schoolc1449
schoolingc1449
document?a1500
instructing1516
entechmenta1522
institution1531
teachment1562
repasting1567
tuition1582
lessoning1583
tutoring1590
loring1596
tutorage1638
indoctrination1646
principling1649
tutorya1713
tutorhood1752
didactic1754
documenting1801
pupillizing1815
tutorizing1837
tutorization1842
tutelagea1856
coachmanship1873
preception1882
a1382 Bible (Wycliffite, E.V.) (Douce 369(1)) (1850) Prov. iii. 4 Thou shalt finde grace, and good discipline [a1425 L.V. teching; L. disciplinam] befor God and men.
a1460 Knyghthode & Bataile (Pembr. Cambr. 243) l. 2773 The maryners..haue al this art Of wydiringe..By discipline of it ha thei no part, But of a longe vsage or exercise.
?a1475 (?a1425) tr. R. Higden Polychron. (Harl. 2261) (1865) I. 81 Somme peple tylle the erthe..somme intende to sapience and discipline.
?1518 A. Barclay tr. D. Mancinus Myrrour Good Maners sig. H If thou haue in greke, had all thy dyscyplyne To dyspute in latin: what nedeth the to seke.
1548 Hall's Vnion: Edward IV f. ccxxiijv He firste holpe his awne young scholers, to attein to discipline, and for them he founded a solempne schoole at Eton.
1609 W. Shakespeare Troilus & Cressida ii. iii. 28 Heauen blesse thee from a tutor, and discipline come not neere thee. View more context for this quotation
1615 Stow's Annals (1631) 307/2 Apt to all offices of worthinesse, if in his child-hood hee had not wanted discipline.
1693 tr. G. de Foigny New Discov. Terra Incognita vii. 86 They usually are three years under the Conduct of the first Master, and after pass under the Discipline of the second, who teaches them to write.
b. A particular school or method of instruction; an educational philosophy. See also discipline of the secret n. at Phrases.
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1545 G. Joye Expos. Daniel i. 15 Thei be taught to enstructe and bringe vp siche yonge men in the knowlege of tongues and worde of god, as here doth the kinge to Daniel and his felows causing them to be lerned in all the discipline of the chaldeis.
1605 W. Camden Remaines i. 10 Our countrimen have twice beene schoolemaisters to France. First when they taught the Gaules the discipline of the Druides; and after [etc.].
a1652 I. Jones Most Notable Antiq. called Stone-Heng (1655) 12 They communicated nothing, but to those of their own society, taking speciall order..their discipline might not be divulged.
1714 T. Hearne Ductor Historicus (ed. 3) I. iii. 414 He addicted himself to the Discipline of Pythagoras.
1836 W. D. Conybeare Elem. Course Theol. Lect. (ed. 2) App. 507 The Sophists who in the middle of the third century revived the Platonic discipline, coupling it with that of these later Pythagoreans.
2000 W. J. Gasparski in V. Alexandre Roots Praxiology 83 The pythagorean discipline governs everything in man, from the most insignificant acts..up to the deepest impulses of his conscience.
c. A period or course of training or education. Now rare.
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society > education > teaching > means of teaching > [noun] > class or course
course1605
discipline1676
class1691
curriculum1824
cursus1875
1676 A. Sammes Britannia Antiqua Illustrata 102 The Commonalty were kept in Ignorance, and none permitted to understand any thing, unless they admitted themselves of this Order, and underwent the severities of a long and tedious Discipline.
1808 Ld. Byron Let. 21 Jan. in T. Moore Let. & Jrnls. Lord Byron (1830) I. xxi. 109 Of the classics, I know about as much as most schoolboys after a discipline of thirteen years.
1863 J. von Gumpach Baby-worlds App. 199 [Cyrus] was, for the sake of his education, placed for one year in the class of boys; then entered the class of youths; and after a discipline of ten years, left it as a full-grown man.
1914 E. B. Usher Wisconsin VII. 1964 After a discipline of two years in the law office of his honored preceptor and virtual guardian he was admitted to the bar.
6. A system or method for the maintenance of order; a body of rules for conduct or action; a way of doing things.
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society > authority > control > [noun] > regulation > a regulation or rule > body or system of
disciplinea1393
formulary?1541
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rationale1580
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code of practice1783
a1393 J. Gower Confessio Amantis (Fairf.) i. l. 942 (MED) Thou art of his [sc. Anubus's] discipline So holy, that no mannes myht Mai do that he hath do to nyht.
a1398 J. Trevisa tr. Bartholomaeus Anglicus De Proprietatibus Rerum (BL Add. 27944) (1975) II. xviii. xii. 1141 Among hem [sc. bees] is wonder obseruaunce of discipline and of lore. For þey..takeþ heede of hem þat worcheþ nouȝt. And chasteþ hem anoon.
c1450 (?a1400) Wars Alexander (Ashm.) l. 5491 Oure techis haue we schawid, Oure dedis & of oure disciplyne.
1567 G. Fenton tr. M. Bandello Certaine Tragicall Disc. f. 175 Folowyng the discipline of vertue, to susteine oure honest pouertye wyth the trauaile of oure handes.
1577 B. Googe tr. C. Heresbach Foure Bks. Husbandry iii. f. 153 The knowledge of keeping of cattell hath a discipline, wherin a man must from his very Chyldehood be brought vp.
1612 For Colony Virginea Britannia 43 The discipline shall be strictly kept, and the offenders against the lawes thereof seuerely punished.
1656 B. Harris tr. J. N. de Parival Hist. Iron Age i. ii. iv. 39 The Mutiners governed themselves in form of a Republick, observing a most exact discipline.
1664 J. Evelyn Kalendarium Hortense 57 in Sylva Nor indeed could we think of a more comprehensive Expedient, whereby to assist the frail and torpent Memory through so multifarious and numerous and Employment..then by the Oeconmy and Discipline into which we have here resolv'd it.
1726 G. Shelvocke Voy. round World vii. 219 Had regulated themselves according to the Jamaican discipline.
1831 J. Comly in Wks. Job Scott I. Advt. p.iv In conformity with the discipline and regulations of the Yearly Meeting of Friends held in Philadelphia, the additional manuscripts have been submitted to the Committee.
1861 M. Pattison in Westm. Rev. Apr. 415 The inmates..were submitted to an almost monastic discipline.
1903 Amer. Law Reg. 51 289 The courts will not review the judgments or acts of the governing authorities of a religious organization..for the purpose of ascertaining their regularity or accordance with the discipline and usages of such organization.
1989 R.P. Maheshwari Princ. Business Stud. (2004) i. 9 While earning profits, business must keep in view the social aspirations and observe the discipline of society.
2005 V. A. Lambert & C. E. Lambert in J. Daly et al. Professional Nursing ii. 34 The aides were to be intensively trained..to conform to the discipline of the organization in which they worked.
7.
a. A branch of learning or knowledge; a field of study or expertise; a subject. Now also: a subcategory or element of a particular subject or field.
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the mind > mental capacity > knowledge > branch of knowledge > [noun]
craftOE
lorec1290
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facultyc1384
sciencea1387
intelligencea1393
disciplinea1398
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learning1570
skill1570
doctrine1594
ism1680
ology1811
ography1828
sophya1843
osophy1851
a1398 J. Trevisa tr. Bartholomaeus Anglicus De Proprietatibus Rerum (BL Add. 27944) (1975) II. xviii. xliv. 1195 Elephantes..kepeþ lore and discipline of þe sterres.
c1405 (c1395) G. Chaucer Canon's Yeoman's Tale (Ellesmere) (1875) l. 1253 Assaye in myn absence This disciplyne and this crafty science.
a1513 W. Dunbar Poems (1998) I. 266 To speik of science, craft or sapience..Off euerie study, lair or disciplene.
1549 M. Coverdale et al. tr. Erasmus Paraphr. Newe Test. II. Ephes. i. f. ii Being singularely learned in humayne disciplines, ye haue excelled other sortes of men euer vnto this day.
1597 T. Morley Plaine & Easie Introd. Musicke 184 Ye tearmeth he musick a perfect knowledge of al sciences and disciplines.
1654 Z. Coke Art of Logick 2 Objective disciplines be..principally four. 1 Theologie. 2 Jurisprudence. 3 Medicine. 4 Philosophy.
1686 R. Boyle Free Enq. Notion Nature 375 Acquainted with Physico-Mathematical Disciplines, such as Opticks, Astronomy, Hydrostaticks, and Mechanicks.
1741 C. Middleton Hist. Life Cicero I. vi. 454 Skill'd in all the Tuscan discipline of interpreting portentous events.
1788 T. Taylor tr. Proclus Philos. & Math. Comm. I. 64 The reasons or proportions of abundance and sterility, permeate through all the mathematical disciplines.
1844 R. W. Emerson New Eng. Reformers in Wks. (1906) I. 266 The culture of the mind in those disciplines to which we give the name of education.
1878 F. J. Bell & E. R. Lankester tr. C. Gegenbaur Elements Compar. Anat. 1 The department of Science which has organic nature for its investigations, breaks up into two great divisions, Botany and Zoology..The two disciplines together form the science of living nature.
1942 Spectator 27 Feb. 204/1 The distribution of academic disciplines in which they [sc. candidates for the Foreign Office] had specialised.
1962 Lancet 13 Jan. 113/1 Sir Leonard Parsons..had been the first to draw into the paediatrics of his time other disciplines such as biochemistry and immunology.
1966 Tulane Drama Rev. 11 59 The..audiences..come from almost all artistic disciplines. Those who work with film in the New Theatre are sculptors, painters, dancers, musicians, and film-makers.
1994 S. W. Itzkoff Decline Intelligence in Amer. v. 53 The several disciplines of mathematics, algebra, geometry, trigonometry, calculus.
2011 Daily Tel. 20 Sept. 12/3 The English Baccalaureate, a school leaving certificate that rewards pupils who gain good GCSEs in traditional academic disciplines.
b. spec. A branch or field of sporting activity; a subcategory or element of a particular sport.
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1970 Jrnl. Confl. Resol. 14 27/2 There are differences in the degree of association in different sport disciplines.
1973 Skiing 140/1 Back in 1971, a racer was able to count only his three best results for each of the three disciplines: downhill, giant slalom, and slalom.
1994 Runner's World Feb. 45/1 He had flitted between the track and roads for many years, occasionally showing flashes of promise but never making a commitment to any one discipline.
1999 Independent (Nexis) 16 Apr. 22 Becky, regarded as the brightest prospect in British gymnastics started her sport at five... Her favourite (and best) discipline is the asymmetric bars.
2007 N.Y. Times (National ed.) 28 Jan. viii. 1/2 Duncan is a founder of the World Power Sports Association, which runs a national race series for snowmobile snocross, a discipline similar to motocross.
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society > armed hostility > drill or training > [noun]
discipline?a1439
training?1569
points of war1580
drilla1637
drilling1639
feats of war1650
square-bashing1943
a1439 J. Lydgate Fall of Princes (Bodl. 263) i. l. 5143 Hercules thoruh knyhtli disciplyne [Fr. discipline d'armes] Profitid so..That from all othre he bar awey the pris.
1489 W. Caxton tr. C. de Pisan Bk. Fayttes of Armes i. ii. sig. Aij Rules, techyngs and dyscyplyne of armes.
1555 R. Eden tr. Peter Martyr of Angleria Decades of Newe Worlde i. iv. f. 21 A man not ignorant in the disciplyne of warre.
1596 W. Warner Albions Eng. (rev. ed.) ix. xlvi. 218 Martialists in Discipline and ordering their war.
1656 B. Harris tr. J. N. de Parival Hist. Iron Age i. ii. iv. 40 Schoole of warre..where all the Martiall Spirits resorted, to learn Discipline, and to put it in practice.
1700 G. Booth tr. Diodorus Siculus Hist. Libr. ii. iii. 76 Amongst these Female Princes..there was one..who got together an Army of Women, and having train'd them up in Martial Discipline, first subdu'd some of her Neighbouring Nations.
1702 (title) A military dictionary. Explaining all difficult terms in martial discipline, fortification, and gunnery.
1764 O. Goldsmith Hist. Eng. in Lett. II. xxv. 204 An enthusiast to the discipline of the field, he desired to bring the spirit of a German campaign into the wilds of Niagara.
1824 J. Strype Ann. Reformation (new ed.) III. i. vii. 106 A book of martial discipline now also came forth in quarto.
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the world > health and disease > healing > medical treatment > [noun] > course of treatment
medicinec1325
regimena1400
regiment?a1425
discipline?a1439
regime1864
a1439 J. Lydgate Fall of Princes (Bodl. 263) iii. l. 2572 Ageyn siknesse men..Serche in phesik sundri disciplynes Them to diete in ther transgressiouns.
1754 E. Montagu Let. in W. B. Scoones Four Cent. Eng. Lett. (1880) ii. 280 He has been under discipline for his eyes, but his spirits and vivacity are not abated.
1816 J. Austen Let. 9 July (1995) 315 Her illness must have been a very serious one indeed... Tell your Father I..most sincerely join in the hope of her being eventually much the better for her present Discipline.
?1859 W. M. Wooler Physiol. Educ. xi. 179 Counter-irritation and counter-action would have..consummated the cure. He would not after this discipline, we think, have had any pre-disposition to spread dismay.
10. Christian Church.
a. The system by which the practice of a church, as distinguished from its doctrine, is regulated; the ecclesiastical laws and customs relating to the religious and moral life of the Church; spec. the ecclesiastical polity adopted by Presbyterian and Independent churches in the 16th and 17th cent. (cf. disciplinarian n. 1) (now historical). Book of Discipline n. each of two documents, compiled in 1560 and 1578 respectively, constituting the original standards of the polity and government of the Reformed Church of Scotland, and also dealing with schools, universities, and other matters. Now also: a similar document setting out the constitution, doctrine, and theology of the United Methodist Church; any of several comparable documents for church bodies deriving from these Scottish and American sources.
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society > faith > church government > [noun] > specific form of
statea1387
discipline1536
platform1572
way1641
1536 R. Taverner tr. P. Melanchthon Confessyon Fayth Germaynes sig. O.viiv By thys estate of churches, it may be iudged that we do diligently obserue the ecclesiasticall discipline & godly ceremonies, and good customes of the churche.
a1572 J. Knox Hist. Reformation Scotl. (1587) 546 The preachers vehemently exhorted vs to establish the booke of discipline by an acte and publicke Law.
1588 W. Travers (title) A defence of the ecclesiastical discipline ordayned of God to be vsed in his Church. Against a replie of Maister Bridges.
1593 R. Hooker Of Lawes Eccl. Politie Pref. 10 That which Caluin did for establishment of his discipline, seemeth more commendable then that which he taught for the countenancing of it established.
1612 B. Jonson Alchemist iii. i. sig. F3v This heate of his may turn into a zeale, And stand vp for the beauteous discipline, Against the menstruous cloth, and ragg of Rome. View more context for this quotation
1621 D. Calderwood Hist. Kirk Scotl. (1843) II. 50 At the same conventioun [1561], the Booke of Discipline was subscribed by a great part of the nobilitie.
1621 D. Calderwood Hist. Kirk Scotl. (1843) II. 51 To establishe a more perfyte discipline, which was done twentie yeeres after..as we sall see in the Second Booke of Discipline.
1642 King Charles I His Maiesties Royall Protestations 4 New doctrines and disciplines.
1676 W. Hubbard Happiness of People 35 Wee in New England that profess the doctrine of Calvin, yet practise the discipline of them called Independant, or Congregational Churches.
1716 Lady M. W. Montagu Let. 14 Sept. (1965) I. 262 I have so far wander'd from the Discipline of the Church of England to have been last Sunday at the Opera.
1759 W. Robertson Hist. Scotl. iii, in Hist. Wks. (1813) I. 194 The first book of discipline..contains the model or platform of the intended policy.
1792 E. Burke Let. to H. Langrishe in Wks. (1842) I. 547 Three religions..each of which has its confession of faith and its settled discipline.
1860 J. Lee Hist. Church Scotl. I. 151 The first head of the original Book of Discipline treats of Doctrine..The second head relates to Sacraments..The fourth head related to Ministers and their lawful election.
1874 J. R. Green Short Hist. Eng. People viii. §5. 509 The Presbyterian organization remained untouched in doctrine or discipline.
1885 W. E. Addis & T. Arnold Catholic Dict. (ed. 3) 265 Usually, discipline in its ecclesiastical sense signifies the laws which bind the subjects of the Church in their conduct, as distinct from dogmas or articles of faith, which affect their belief.
1904 Monthly Rev. Oct. 6 The First or the Second Book of Discipline, which laid down the constitution of the Church, or the Book of Common Order which settles its service.
1983 N.Y. Times (Nexis) 4 July i. 9 The church's Judicial Council ruled that nothing in the Methodist Book of Discipline specifically prohibited the appointment of a homosexual pastor.
2001 Church Times 2 Mar. 19/3 Other tensions affecting English Catholicism include the capricious effects of the Church's marriage discipline, under which, in one victim's words, divorce and remarriage is the unforgivable sin.
b. gen. The system or method by which order is maintained within a church, conformity to its laws and customs ensured, and control exercised over the conduct of its members; the exercise of this control by means of censure, excommunication, or other penal measures. Cf. church discipline n. at church n.1 and adj. Compounds 1a(b).
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society > faith > church government > ecclesiastical discipline > [noun]
discipline1549
1549 Bk. Common Prayer (STC 16267) Firste Daie of Lente f. xxxi* In the prymatiue churche there was a godlye disciplyne, that at the begynnyng of lent suche persones as were notorious synners, were put to open penaunce.
1561 T. Norton tr. J. Calvin Inst. Christian Relig. iv. xii. f. 74v The first fundation of discipline is, that priuate monitions shoulde haue place.
1574 A. Golding tr. A. Marlorat Catholike Expos. Reuelation 18 Our meeting vpon that day rather than vpon any other, is onely for orders sake, and for a certeine discipline in the Churche.
1611 in G. R. Kinloch Select. Minutes Synod of Fife (1837) 33 Forsamikle as dyvers persons..tak..occasioune to illude the Kirk discipline.
1621 First & Second Bk. Discipline (Church of Scotl.) 50 The order of Ecclesiasticall Discipline, which stands in reproving and correcting of the faults, which the civill Sword either doth neglect, or not punish.
1676 Rec. Inverness in W. Mackay Rec. Presbyteries Inverness & Dingwall (1896) 72 To send him back to satisfie the kirk discipline.
1734 M. T. Let. to Rev. Dr. Waterland 28 You insist on Church Discipline, and the Excommunication of all such as impugn the Catholick Faith.
1858 J. Gardner Faiths of World (new ed.) I. 479/1 The ancient discipline of the church, while it excluded offenders from spiritual privileges, left all their natural or civil rights unaffected.
1946 Jrnl. Biblical Lit. 65 95 What course ecclesiastical discipline should take in dealing with breaches of this teaching, is a question which involves the whole field of Christian theology and ethics.
2008 Independent 8 Feb. 8/3 Canon law—the collection of ancient decrees which concerned the discipline of the Early Christian church.
III. Senses relating to order arising from training or instruction.
11. Orderly conduct and action resulting from instruction or training; the quality or fact of behaving in a controlled and orderly manner; self-control, self-discipline. Cf. military discipline n. at military adj. and n. Compounds 2.
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society > authority > subjection > obedience > [noun] > discipline or orderly conduct > resulting from training
disciplinec1350
military discipline1625
c1350 Psalter (BL Add. 17376) in K. D. Bülbring Earliest Compl. Eng. Prose Psalter (1891) cxviii. 66 (MED) Teche me godenes, discipline, and tuninge [read cuninge; L. bonum sermonem et scientiam].
1509 J. Fisher Mornynge Remembraunce Countesse of Rychemonde (de Worde) sig. Aii The comparyson of them two may be made..In noblenes of persone, in dyscyplyne of theyr bodyes.
1551 T. Wilson Rule of Reason sig. Dviijv The polliticall lawe dothe cause an outwarde discipline to be obserued euen of the wycked.
1611 M. Smith in Bible (King James) Transl. Pref. 1 Seeking to reduce their Countreymen to good order and discipline.
1665 T. Stanley tr. Ælian Various Hist. xii. lvi. 251 Diogenes the Sinopean said many things in the reproof of the ignorance and want of discipline of the Megreans.
a1727 I. Newton Chronol. Anc. Kingdoms Amended (1728) iv. 312 He..reduced the irregular and undisciplined forces of the Medes into discipline and order.
1781 E. Gibbon Decline & Fall III. liii. 287 The discipline of a soldier is formed by exercise rather than by study.
1827 R. Pollok Course of Time I. iv. 170 Sound-headed men, Of proper discipline, and excellent wind.
1896 Rep. Adjutant Gen. State of Mich. 6 Their discipline was more than good, and I have no hesitation in saying that in the performance of any of the duties they will compare favorably with any National Guard.
1907 Times 26 Nov. 9/5 The want of moral discipline, self-restraint, and right doing among various classes in modern society.
1952 Indust. & Labor Relations Rev. 5 301/1 The necessarily broad sweeps of many of the propositions considered in the book are generally drawn with admirable discipline and sure-footed legal craftsmanship.
1960 Boys' Life Dec. 67/1 Like the athlete, he [sc. a painter] must..be forceful and precise—and have great discipline.
2010 S. Thirsk Not quite White (2011) 230 This is a military operation. Don't laugh! Maintain your discipline at all times.
12. The state of order maintained and observed among people under some kind of control or command, as members of a religious house, schoolchildren, soldiers, prisoners, etc.; an orderly, regulated, or controlled condition.
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society > authority > subjection > obedience > [noun] > discipline or orderly conduct
discipline1610
1610 Bible (Douay) II. Ecclus. vii. 25 Kepe children in discipline..instruct them, & bowe them from their childehood.
1640 F. Quarles Enchyridion 22 It is most requisite for a Prince to prepare against..Warre, both Theorically in reading Heroick Histories; and practically, in maintaining Martiall discipline.
1667 S. Pepys Diary 1 Apr. (1974) VIII. 141 Sir W. Coventry is wholly resolved to bring him to punishment—‘for bear with this’, says he, ‘and no discipline shall ever be expected.’
a1715 Bp. G. Burnet Hist. Own Time (1724) I. 170 They were men of severe tempers, and kept good discipline.
1746 tr. C. P. Duclos Hist. Lewis XI I. 18 It was not only unjust, but impossible, to maintain discipline in the army, without making a due provision for their subsistence.
1836 F. Marryat Mr. Midshipman Easy I. xiii. 206 If I do not punish him, I allow a flagrant and open violation of discipline to pass uncensured.
1848 J. C. Hare & A. W. Hare Guesses at Truth 2nd Ser. (ed. 2) 282 Discipline..should exercise its influence without appearing to do so.
1889 Times 9 Mar. 16/1 I recently heard a learned limb of the law..confound prison punishment with prison discipline, forgetting that the former is merely a means of enforcing the latter.
1925 H. J. Stenning tr. O. Bauer Austrian Revol. xi. 168 Irresponsible strikes were averted, and discipline and order restored.
1964 Prison Rules in Statutory Instruments i. ccclxxxviii. 604 Where it appears desirable, for the maintenance of good order or discipline or in his own interests, that a prisoner should not associate with other prisoners.
1997 Educ. Rev. Summer 82/2 Breakdowns in school discipline and the rising tide of ever-younger children being excluded from school are instant headline grabbers.
Phrases
discipline of the secret n. Theology (also with capital initials) the practice, held to have been observed in the early Church, of concealing certain theological doctrines and religious usages from the uninitiated, and revealing them only gradually to neophytes. Sometimes also secret discipline. Cf. sense 5b. [After French †discipline du secret (1700 in the passage translated in quot. 1700), itself after post-classical Latin disciplina arcani (1683 in the title of a book by the Lutheran theologian W. E. Tentzel, 1685 in the title of a refutation of Tentzel's work by the Catholic theologian E. Schelstrate).]
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1700 tr. M. Souverain Platonism Unveil'd viii. 25/2 Among Christians of the Discipline of the Secret [Fr. de la Discipline du Secret], and of the Platonick Trinity, it is very likely that they design'd to hide it under this Allegorical and Symbolical Name.
1794 J. Jamieson Vindic. Doctr. Script. II. vi. ii. 347 Not till after the introduction of this secret discipline, which seems to have been about the beginning of the third century, did the fathers, as far as I can observe, form such distinctions.
1885 W. E. Addis & T. Arnold Catholic Dict. (ed. 3) 266 Discipline of the Secret..a convenient name for the custom which prevailed in the early Church of concealing from heathen and catechumens the more sacred and mysterious doctrines and rites of..religion.
1914 J. Hastings Encycl. Relig. VI. 235/1 To this purpose of circumventing the hostile rulers the secret discipline of Gnosticism was mainly directed.
1966 D. Newsome Parting of Friends ii. 75 In the early Church, the principle of reserve was developed into a regular system, described as the Disciplina Arcani, the discipline of the secret, whereby the catechumens were gradually educated in the mysteries of the faith.
2012 M. Hickey Get Real x. 44 The Discipline of the Secret also involved a cryptic language used by Christians to communicate with one another.
Compounds
C1. General attributive and objective (with agent nouns), as discipline committee, discipline forger, discipline problem, discipline policy, etc.
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1591 M. Sutcliffe Treat. Eccl. Discipline vii. §vi. 190 Which may serue to all platformers, deformers..church modellours, and discipline forgers for a full answere.
1606 W. Birnie Blame of Kirk-buriall xviii. sig. Evv So should Kirk-pastors now ding it with the discipline rod.
1823 Jackson's Oxf. Jrnl. 18 Oct. Hand-mills for grinding wheat are particularly recommended by the Prison Discipline Committee, as best calculated to be used in prisons, &c. for punishment by hard labour.
1897 Weekly Rocky Mountain News (Denver) 23 Sept. 2/7 Firmness, tact, patience and love will usually solve the discipline problem and win the child's respect for the parent.
1917 Bull. Amer. Libr. Assoc. 11 182/2 If the librarian can gain a point of contact through the right book early in the year the discipline problem disappears.
1970 R. G. Corwin Militant Professionalism v. 106 [Teachers] are not willing to compromise their final authority to determine what the discipline policy is to be.
2012 Globe & Mail (Toronto) (Nexis) 6 Aug. a8 The Immigration Minister misused the Law Society's discipline process to try to stifle freedom of speech.
C2.
discipline master n. a person employed to keep order and mete out punishment in a school or similar institution.Now chiefly historical in Britain and North America but still current elsewhere, esp. in East Asia.
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society > education > teaching > teacher > schoolteacher or schoolmaster > [noun] > other schoolteachers
gerund-grinder1710
hedge-schoolmaster1830
grammatist1850
discipline master1863
quizmaster1878
careers master1943
1863 Leeds Mercury 20 Apr. 4/2 One or two of the number pulled out short pipes and began to smoke, in contravention of the rules; and on doing so they were remonstrated with by the discipline master.
1895 Daily News 3 Apr. 8/3 Deceased was employed as discipline master..at..the Police Orphanage.
1914 Lloyd's Weekly News 16 Aug. 15/4 (advt.) The London County Council invites applications for the position of Instructor in Shoemaking and Discipline Master on ‘Supply’ at the Highbury Industrial School.
2011 D. Tse-Shang Tang Conditional Spaces iii. 78 Ah Lok was frequently being called into the discipline master's room for lectures.
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disciplinev.
/ˈdɪsᵻplᵻn/, U.S. /ˈdɪsəplən/ 1.
a. transitive. Christian Church. To inflict penitential discipline upon (oneself or another); to mortify (the flesh) by way of penance. Frequently reflexive. Cf. discipline n. 1.In quot. ?c1335 intransitive with reflexive meaning.
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c1300 Life & Martyrdom Thomas Becket (Harl. 2277) (1845) l. 2267 (MED) Of ech monek of the hous he let him discipline, With a ȝurd.
?c1335 in W. Heuser Kildare-Gedichte (1904) 156 (MED) Hail ȝe holi monkes..Wiþ seint Benet is scurge lome ȝe disciplineþ.
c1450 Jacob's Well (1900) 312 Þe abbet reprouyd him, and dede him sore dyscyplyned.
1483 W. Caxton tr. J. de Voragine Golden Legende f. ccccxxxiiv/2 He chastysed his body by abstynence of mete & drynke, &..dyscyplyned it..with chaynes of yron right ofte wyth his owne handes.
1618 T. Everard tr. L. Pinelli Mirrour Relig. Perfection iii. 345 There be some Religious, that punish themselues diuers wayes, some by fastings, others by wearing of haire-cloth, & by disciplining themselues, which they suffer both willingly & patiently.
1682 N. Bacon's Laws & Govt. Eng. (ed. 3) I. 181 First he was disciplin'd with rods three times.
1740 T. Gray Let. 15 Apr. in Corr. (1971) I. 147 Half a dozen wretched creatures..are in a side-chapel disciplining themselves with scourges full of iron prickles.
1865 T. F. Knox tr. Life H. Suso 65 He used to..go into the choir in front of the Blessed Sacrament and there discipline himself.
1866 C. Kingsley Hereward the Wake II. xx. 337 To fast all the year on bread and water; and to be disciplined with rods or otherwise.
1998 Bks. Ireland Summer 172/1 They [sc. seminarians] study, pray, learn to preach, practise humility and discipline themselves with scourges.
2002 J. C. Roy Back of Beyond (2004) xiii. 134 Many of its patristic saints..came here [sc. Aran] both to discipline the flesh and to study the ancient texts.
b. transitive. gen. To punish, chastise, or reprimand (a person), esp. with the intention of correcting or altering subsequent behaviour; to impose a (salutary) punishment upon. Cf. discipline n. 2.
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society > authority > punishment > [verb (transitive)] > inflict disciplinary or corrective punishment
thewc1175
castea1200
chaste?c1225
amendc1300
chastyc1320
chastise1362
corrigec1374
correct1377
scourgec1384
disple1492
orderc1515
nurturec1520
chasten1526
whip1530
discipline1557
school1559
swinge1560
penance1580
disciple1596
castigatea1616
to serve out1829
1557 in Brieff Disc. Troubles Franckford (1574) p. cxxxii Yff anie do vniustlie accuse the Ministers and Seniors or any off them, that he or they shall therfore be moste sharply disciplined as a contemner and defacer of the ministerie and a disturber off the whole churche.
a1586 Sir P. Sidney Arcadia (1590) ii. xxvii. sig. Ff5v All they of the contrary side were put to flight, and fled to certaine woods vpon the frontiers; where feeding coldly, and drinking onely water, they were disciplined for their dronken riots.
?1591 H. Barrow Brief Discouerie False Church 142 By the same to be disciplined, censured & chasticed for anie thing offensiue vnto them, which in their ministerie they shal do or say.
a1616 W. Shakespeare Coriolanus (1623) ii. i. 124 Ha's he disciplin'd Auffidius soundly? View more context for this quotation
1682 R. Baxter Answer Mr. Dodwell & Dr. Sherlocke v. 78 In the Diocess where I now live, there may be about 50000 souls that by Christs Law should be admonished and disciplined for gross sin.
1721 Abridgm. Acts Gen. Assemblies Church of Scotl. 286 That..Scholars or Students, being found guilty, be severely disciplined and chastised therefore by their Master.
a1728 W. Kennett in J. Buchanan-Brown Three Prose Wks. J. Aubrey (1972) 445 Memorandum. A whipping Tom in Kent disciplind the wandering Maids and Women, till they were afraid to walk abroad.
1786 S. Henley tr. W. Beckford Arabian Tale 179 Having well disciplined their asses with nettles behind.
1802 E. Chaplin Treat. Nature Sacraments 272 Baptized persons ought to be..disciplined if they commit immorality.
1894 Outlook 12 May 839/2 A member of the Society of Friends was disciplined for alleged heresy, somewhat to the surprise of many who deemed it an extraordinary case of rigor.
1899 Westm. Gaz. 25 Apr. 7/1 Indiscreet remarks made by a naval captain at dinner..fell within the jurisdiction of the Navy Department, which would undoubtedly discipline the offending officer.
1919 C. B. Davenport Naval Officers 70 At the Norwich Academy, when 17 years of age, he was disciplined for breaking up a service of hymns by standing outside and singing rival melodies.
1960 Brit. Med. Jrnl. 22 Oct. 1246/1 A veterinary surgeon may be disciplined either as a result of conviction of a criminal offence or where he is proved to have been guilty of professional misconduct.
2011 Daily Examiner (Grafton, New S. Wales) (Nexis) 7 May 19 The many nieces and nephews..remember Jack as a loving uncle with a sense of humour and a handy stock whip for disciplining children.
2. To train; to instruct. Cf. discipline n. II.† a. transitive. To train; to teach; to educate. Cf. discipline n. 5a. Obsolete.In quot. a1586 in passive: to become used or accustomed to.
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society > education > teaching > training > train [verb (transitive)]
to teach of1297
exercec1374
informc1384
schoolc1456
break1474
instruct1510
nuzzle1519
train1531
train1542
frame1547
experience?c1550
to trade up1556
disciplinea1586
disciple1596
nursle1596
accommodate1640
educate1643
model1665
form1711
to break in1785
scholar1807
a1586 Sir P. Sidney Arcadia (1590) ii. xx. sig. Bb8v [He] was disciplined to leaue the through-handling of all, to his gentle wife.
1590 J. Hammon tr. B. Aneau Αλεκτορ i. xv. 90 All which things they willingly tooke and learned like men who are fellowlike creatures, and easie to be disciplined.
1592 H. O. tr. V. Figueiro Spaniards Monarchie sig. Aiii Hauing bene disciplined in a better schoole, then that of this barbareus infidell.
a1629 W. Hinde Faithfull Remonstr. (1641) Ep. to Rdr. sig. A7v I would send such to be disciplined by Erasmus.
a1652 J. Smith Select Disc. (1660) vi. ix. 253 Samuel was the President of this School or Colledge; as disciplining those young Scholars, and training them up to those preparatory qualifications which might more dispose them for Prophesie.
1711 J. Brightland Reasons Eng. Educ. 1 Can any thing be more Absurd and Barbarous, than our present Method of Disciplining Children in the Initiatory part of Literature?
b. transitive. spec. To instruct in military discipline (discipline n. 8); to train as a soldier; esp. to teach to respond promptly and efficiently in obedience to command.
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society > armed hostility > drill or training > drill [verb (transitive)]
train1531
discipline1590
drill1626
redrill1792
1590 R. Williams Briefe Disc. Warre 13 Though his leuied Armie be 50000. the ten thousand will both discipline them, & keepe them in order: for out of the 10000. he may draw continuallie a 100. or two experimented Souldiers to make Officers, to traine the others.
1609 W. Shakespeare Troilus & Cressida ii. iii. 239 Hee that disciplind thine armes to fight. View more context for this quotation
1692 N. Luttrell Diary in Brief Hist. Relation State Affairs (1857) II. 629 Orders were come from England..to discipline the militia.
1706 Boston News-let. 5 Aug. 1/1 His Excellency..Arm'd and Disciplin'd a Regiment of Negroes, rais'd several Batteries, and mounted them with Guns.
1792 J. Almon Anecd. Life W. Pitt (octavo ed.) I. v. 138 A farmer..may be a good soldier if you take care to have him properly disciplined.
1855 T. B. Macaulay Hist. Eng. IV. 79 He addressed himself vigorously to the task of disciplining these strange soldiers.
1861 Evening Star (Philadelphia) 4 Oct. The Western men take longer to discipline into soldiers than the citizens of New England.
1921 Teachers Monogr. Mar. 146/2 His army was in no condition for fighting and for the next eight months he trained and disciplined his troops.
2012 Charleston Gaz. (Nexis) 25 Mar. c1 During the next eight months, McClellan drilled, disciplined and reorganized the troops, preparing them to march on Richmond.
c. transitive. To train to act or behave in an orderly, controlled, and effective manner; to bring under control; to make disciplined. Cf. discipline n. 4a. Also figurative and in extended use.Sometimes difficult to distinguish from sense 1b, esp. in contexts where punishment is employed to reinforce such training.
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society > education > teaching > training > train [verb (transitive)] > to behave in specific way
discipline1606
house-train1924
programme1963
society > education > teaching > training > train [verb (transitive)] > discipline
chastec1200
school1579
disciplinate1584
discipline1711
enregiment1831
to put (a person) through a course of sprouts1839
1606 S. Lennard tr. T. Buoni Problemes of Beautie lxxvi. 149 Neither are the labours of the father in disciplining [It. disciplinarli] them [sc. children]..in nourishing them, in defending them..any way inferior to those of the mother.
1647 S. Birkbek Cordiall for Heart-qualme 8 None of them [sc. afflictions] are for the time pleasing, but grievous and irksome; yet afterwards we find them to be exceeding beneficiall, by taming, disciplining, and fitting us to an holy life.
1695 R. Blackmore Prince Arthur i. 19 I form'd and disciplin'd their untaught Hate.
1711 J. Addison Spectator No. 160. ¶4 Great natural Geniuss that were never disciplined and broken by Rules of Art.
1781 H. H. Kames Loose Hints upon Educ. i. 34 Few of the lower sort ever think of disciplining their children to obedience.
1796 R. Southey Joan of Arc ix. 145 Heaven by sorrow disciplines The froward heart.
1828 Ladies' Mag. July 316 A sternness of demeanor..peculiar to those, disciplined in the school of our puritan fathers.
1871 R. W. Dale Ten Commandm. viii. 206 The whole organisation of the world is intended to discipline our moral nature.
1888 J. W. Burgon Lives Twelve Good Men II. x. 242 He had been disciplined in the school of adversity.
1925 Woman's World (Chicago) Apr. 58/2 In time Aunt Rest disciplined her heart and came to care for thy Uncle James.
1973 E. Easwaran Gandhi the Man 17 He struggled to discipline his hair with an English brush.
2008 Sunday Tel. (Nexis) 23 Nov. (Features section) 30 The first generation of parents to attempt to discipline their children through praise, rather than the slipper.
d. transitive (reflexive). To train oneself to behave in an orderly or controlled manner; to restrain or control one's behaviour in order to do a particular thing, or to act in a certain way; to exercise self-control. Also in extended use.
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1673 R. Allestree Ladies Calling i. §2 45 Socrates..when he design'd to discipline himself to perfect patience and tolerance, knew no better way of exercise, then to get a shrew to his wife.
1695 J. Collier Misc. upon Moral Subj. 185 That Atomes should Discipline themselves at this rate, check their own agreeable Progress. and clap one another under Hatches; is very unconceiveable.
1819 Asiatic Jrnl. & Monthly Reg. Nov. 422/2 The impossibility of man's..disciplining himself to that conduct which shall entitle him to fill the higher relations of a celestial state is apparent.
1887 J. Stark John Murker of Banff xvii. 168 He was the very man to take advantage of the vital currents of his times, if he had only disciplined himself to do it.
1918 Atlantic Monthly Dec. 788/1 She disciplined herself not to hope too much and to forget disappointments.
1965 H. C. Cox Secular City iii. 63 He disciplines himself to give up certain things.
1996 New Straits Times (Malaysia) (Nexis) 4 Dec. 11 He first disciplined himself to write 15 minutes a day.
2011 Wall St. Jrnl. 23 May a20/5 Most of our politicians cannot discipline themselves to spend other peoples'..money wisely. Starve the beast!
ΘΚΠ
society > leisure > the arts > literature > prose > non-fiction > treatise or dissertation > write treatise about or treat of [verb (transitive)] > systematically
discipline1658
1658 J. Evelyn tr. N. de Bonnefons French Gardiner ii. vii. 261 Your Fruit, your Herbs and your Pulses are disciplind [Fr. sont en leur rang] in the two former Treatises.
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