noun
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A controlled behaviour; self-control.
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A specific branch of knowledge or learning.
verb
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To train someone by instruction and practice.
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To teach someone to obey authority.
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To punish someone in order to (re)gain control.
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To impose order on someone.
Examples of discipline in a Sentence
The discipline was there before the Reformers.
Sirian's coldness had never struck her as anything but rigid discipline and cool thinking.
The discipline was strict.
His great object was discipline.
Entire conformity with the Scottish Church was maintained, and strict discipline was enforced by pastoral visitations, kirk-sessions and presbyteries.
Have you learned any sort of discipline?
But the discipline and moral of the army were shaken and its organization faulty.
He knew no discipline or restraint.
If children do not learn self discipline then merely following rules will not result in a disciplined life.
Another salient feature of the Moderate policy was the consolidation of discipline.
They have few expectations of their children and impose little or inconsistent discipline.
They also understand discipline and what behavior is appropriate and inappropriate, and they understand the concepts of words like "please" and "thank you."
A strong attraction is often the hallmark of this relationship; Pisces craves Virgo's sense of order and discipline, and Virgo greatly appreciates Pisces' deep and understanding nature.
For example, a priest will have skills and three talent trees (Discipline, Holy, and Shadow).
To succeed, it was essential that the fellah should be taught that discipline might be strict without being oppressive, that pay and rations would be fairly distributed, that brutal usage by superiors would be checked, that complaints would be thoroughly investigated, and impartial justice meted out to soldiers of all ranks.
The penal discipline of to-day, much modified and varied it is true, may be largely traced to it.
Their training consisted of gymnastic and warlike exercises which developed strength and discipline that would be as useful in executing public works and in dragging large monuments as in strictly military service.
He earned the confidence of the Porte by the cruel discipline he maintained in his own sanjak, and the regular flow of tribute and bribes which he directed to Constantinople; while he bent all his energies to extending his territories at the expense of his neighbours.
Online classes require a considerable amount of discipline.
As a teacher and master Hegel inspired confidence in his pupils, and maintained discipline without pedantic interference in their associations and sports.
Stimulated by the success achieved by Mrs Fry, the Prison Discipline Society continued its labours.
Education should be to 1st degree level or above in a relevant discipline.
Learning to meditate requires a sense of discipline.
If these involved high claims of independence and power for the Church, they also asserted a high standard of devotion and discipline.
If the debtor broke his oath, he became liable to the discipline of the Church.
In every mutiny against the discipline of the college he was the ringleader.
He was probably already regarded as the leading exponent of the Roman discipline in England when his speech at the council of Whitby determined the overthrow of the Celtic party (664).
That this system works without friction is due to the German habit of discipline; that it is, on the whole, singularly effective is a result of the peculiarly enlightened and progressive views of the German bureaucracy.
The necessities of military discipline were also a subject of attention.
Ismails exactions from the Egyptian peasantry reacted on the army, causing discontent; and when he was tottering on the throne he instigated military demonstrations against his own government, and, by thus sapping the foundations of discipline, assisted Arabis revolution; the result was the battle of Tell el-Kebir, the British occupation, and the disbandment of the army, which at that time in Egypt proper consisted of 18,000 men.
The discipline of the old army had been regulated by a translation of part of the Code Napoleon, which was inadequate for an Eastern army, and the sirdar replaced it by the British Army Act of 1881, slightly modified, and printed in Arabic. -
Tb.e honesty and discipline of the fellah were shown to be undoubtedly of a high order.
The barrack-square drill was smart under the old system, bUt there was no fire discipline, and all individuality was crushed.
Bands of armed men fighting for their own hand traversed the country, and in the ten years between 1434 and 1444 the provinces were terrorized by these ecorcheurs, who, with the decline of discipline in the English army, were also recruited from the ranks of the invaders.
The central authority was gradually made effective, and a definite system of payment, by removing the original cause of brigandage, and the establishment of a strict discipline learnt perhaps from the English troops, gradually stamped out the most serious of the many evils under which the country had suffered.
A certain number of Bulgars at Kukush in Macedonia and elsewhere form a "uniate" church, which accepts the authority and dogma of Rome, but preserves the Orthodox rite and discipline.
So in his warfare, though he kept strict discipline and allowed no wanton violence, he treated severely all who had in his opinion transgressed.
In 1560 John Knox propounded in his First Book of Discipline a comprehensive scheme of education from elementary to university, but neither this proposal nor an act passed by the privy council in 1616 for the establishment of a school in every parish was carried into effect.
The court of each university is the supreme authority in regard to finance, discipline, and the regulation of the duties of professors and lecturers.
The Book of Discipline and the Book of Common Order express Knox's ideals, which, as far as they were noble, as in the matter of education and of provision for the poor, remained, in part or in whole, " devout imaginations."
He could not pursue; the whereabouts of his right was unknown, and after the battle his best officers felt rather dismayed than encouraged by the conspicuous lack of discipline.
Of course, both Michael Phelps and Speedo acknowledge that what makes him a champion is a combination of talent, skill and discipline.
During the great sailors' strike at Marseilles in 1904 he showed pronounced sympathy with the socialistic aims and methods of the strikers, and a strong feeling was aroused that his Radical sympathies tended to a serious weakening of the navy and to destruction of discipline.
Several of the decretal letters of Siricius are extant, in which, at the request of certain groups of Western bishops, he sets forth the rules of ecclesiastical discipline.
He established an excellent library, and through his strict discipline and consummate scholarship soon raised the monastery to an educational institution of a high order.
This grand feat of arms was marked by many points of interest, such as the capture of the Dutch ships, which were frozen in the Helder, by the French hussars, and the splendid discipline of the ragged battalions in Amsterdam, who, with the richest city of the continent to sack, yet behaved with a self-restraint which few revolutionary and Napoleonic armies attained.
In disgust at his advice being disregarded, Mr. Thomas resigned the secretaryship of the Union, but was eventually persuaded, on promises of better discipline, to resume office.
And again, when they challenged His disciples for not observing the regular fasts, He gently reminded them that they themselves relaxed the discipline of fasting for a bridegroom's friends.
This man's unusual faith, based on his soldierly sense of discipline, surprised the Lord, who declared that it had no equal in Israel itself.
They are entrusted especially with the surveillance of the parish priests and other priests of their districts, and with matters of ecclesiastical discipline.