a1450 St. Edith (Faust.) (1883) l. 1043 (MED) Euery nyȝt..He chaysteyssede hure body with displynynge.

1606 B. Barnes Foure Bks. Offices 172 Th'instructing and disciplining of souldiers.

1641 J. Milton Reason Church-govt. 5 They are left to their own disciplining at home.

c1684 J. Evelyn Diary anno 1645 (1955) II. 408 Amongst other things they shew S. Catharines disciplining Cell.

1707 in G. Stanhope tr. P. Charron Of Wisdom (ed. 2) II. Index sig. Aa2 Lacedemon and Crete, the only Constitutions where the Disciplining of Children was prescrib'd by National Laws.

1850 C. Kingsley Alton Locke II. x. 144 A fresh centre of instruction, humanising, disciplining..to hundreds of little savage spirits.

1893 Morning Oregonian (Portland, Oregon) 31 Oct. 4/5 The disciplining of offenders by courts-martial.

1937 Amer. Home Apr. 78/4 By remembering that discipline should be impersonal and consistent we can be constructive in our disciplining.

1942 Jrnl. Higher Educ. 13 186/1 The training or the disciplining of the mind.

2004 Politics Oct. 56/1 The government had decided, as a precaution, to send all students entering Peking University to the army for a year of disciplining or ‘political re-education’.

1532 (c1385) Usk's Test. Love in W. W. Skeat Chaucerian & Other Pieces (1897) 91 After a good disciplyning with a yerde, they [sc. children] kepe right wel doctrine of their scole.

1655 H. Vane Retired Mans Medit. xii. 158 The teachings and disciplinings of the Cross.

1669 A. Woodhead tr. Life St. Teresa (1671) ii. xxvi. 161 Her penances, and disciplinings were numerous.

1768 Hist. City & County Norwich 127 These penances became afterwards very common here; and were called displings, or disciplinings.

1823 W. F. Deacon Inn-keeper's Album 139 After a few more salubrious disciplinings the Exciseman was permitted to retire.

1847 D. P. Page Theory & Pract. Teaching v. 70 An inspiring of the mind with a thirst for knowledge, growth, enlargement,—and then a disciplining of its powers so far that it can go on to educate itself.

1884 Essex Standard 15 Nov. 7/2 He was enjoined the following penance; three disciplinings in solemn procession about the Cathedral Church of Norwich..and three disciplinings about the Market-place of Norwich.

1933 Proc. Aristotelian Soc. 33 11 The expression of emotion or of personality through the construction of a work of art is at the same time a disciplining of the emotion or of the personality.

1998 M. Brady & P. West in E. McAuliffe & L. Joyce Healthier Future? (2003) 115 Sackings and disciplinings bring their own counterblasts in strikes and bad publicity.

2008 Victorian Stud. 50 213 People deemed naked, wretched, and primitive frequently rejected these representations of their lives and the disciplinings that so often accompanied them.

1645 D. North Forest of Varieties iii. 206 Joy in thy well disciplining Chiefe: Happy who are to his command resign'd.

1784 J. L. de Lolme Mem. Human Superstition (ed. 2) xxiii. 388 Some have objected to the disciplining persons laying themselves bare for that purpose, as being contrary to decency.

1849 A. D. Mayo in C. M. Sawyer Rose of Sharon 196 We find great consolation in the thought of the disciplining nature of a future state of being.

1896 National Rev. Mar. 85 The drill, while from its strictness and enforced precision it had a disciplining effect on those subjected to it, was a mere thing of rote.

1957 W. H. Whyte Organization Man 292 A disciplining force that helped them resist the temptation to cut corners.

2011 Wall St. Jrnl. 16 Apr. a13/3 The economics profession retroactively read some disciplining logic into the Sherman Act.