discipline
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See also: discipliné
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”).
Pronunciation
Noun
discipline (countable and uncountable, plural disciplines)
- A controlled behaviour; self-control.
- a. 1729, John Rogers, The Difficulties of Obtaining Salvation:
- The most perfect, who have their passions in the best discipline, are yet obliged to be constantly on their guard.
- An enforced compliance or control.
- 1956, Michael Arlen, “1/1/2”, in “Piracy”: A Romantic Chronicle of These Days:
- The masters looked unusually stern, but it was the sternness of thought rather than of discipline.
- A systematic method of obtaining obedience.
- 1871, Charles John Smith, Synonyms Discriminated:
- Discipline aims at the removal of bad habits and the substitution of good ones, especially those of order, regularity, and obedience.
- 1973, Bible (New International Version), Hebrews 12:7:
- Endure hardship as discipline; God is treating you as his children. For what children are not disciplined by their father?
- A state of order based on submission to authority.
- 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:
- Their wildness lose, and, quitting nature's part, / Obey the rules and discipline of art.
- A set of rules regulating behaviour.
- A punishment to train or maintain control.
- 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:
- giving her the discipline of the strap
- (Catholicism) A whip used for self-flagellation.
- 2024 March 16, Antonia Cundy, “The Opus Dei diaries”, in FT Weekend, page 18:
- 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.
- A flagellation as a means of obtaining sexual gratification.
- A specific branch of knowledge, learning, or practice.
- 2013 August 3, “Boundary problems”, in The Economist, volume 408, number 8847:
- Economics is a messy discipline: too fluid to be a science, too rigorous to be an art.
- 1648, John Wilkins, Mathematical Magick:
- This mathematical discipline, by the help of geometrical principles, doth teach to contrive several weights and powers unto motion or rest.
Synonyms
Antonyms
- (antonym(s) of “controlled behaviour et al.”): spontaneity
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
Translations
controlled behaviour, self-control
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enforced compliance or control
systematic method
state of order
punishment
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set of rules
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specific branch or knowledge or learning
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category in which a certain activity belongs
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See also
Verb
discipline (third-person singular simple present disciplines, present participle disciplining, simple past and past participle disciplined)
- (transitive) To train someone by instruction and practice.
- (transitive) To teach someone to obey authority.
- (transitive) To punish someone in order to (re)gain control.
- (transitive) To impose order on someone.
Synonyms
Derived terms
Related terms
Translations
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
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Etymology
From Middle Dutch discipline, from Old French discipline, from Latin disciplīna.
Pronunciation
Noun
discipline f (plural disciplines, diminutive disciplinetje n)
- discipline, self-control
- Synonyms: zelfbeheersing, zelfcontrole
- discipline, regime of forcing compliance
- discipline, sanction
- Synonym: tucht
- discipline, branch
- Synonym: tak
Derived terms
- disciplinair
- disciplineren
- kadaverdiscipline
- kerndiscipline
- onderzoeksdiscipline
- sportdiscipline
Related terms
- discipel
- ongedisciplineerd
Descendants
- Afrikaans: dissipline
- → Indonesian: disiplin
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Pronunciation
Etymology 1
Borrowed from Latin disciplīna.
Noun
discipline f (plural disciplines)
- discipline, sanction
- discipline, self-control
- discipline, branch
Derived terms
Related terms
Descendants
- → Turkish: disiplin
Etymology 2
Verb
discipline
- inflection of discipliner:
Further reading
- “discipline”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
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Noun
discipline f pl
- plural of disciplina
Pronunciation
Verb
discipline
- inflection of disciplinar:
Verb
discipline
- inflection of disciplinar:
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