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 Discipline \Dis`ci*pline\, n. [F. discipline, L. disciplina,
   from discipulus. See {Disciple}.]
   1. The treatment suited to a disciple or learner; education;
      development of the faculties by instruction and exercise;
      training, whether physical, mental, or moral.
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            Wife and children are a kind of discipline of
            humanity.                             --Bacon.
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            Discipline aims at the removal of bad habits and the
            substitution of good ones, especially those of
            order, regularity, and obedience.     --C. J. Smith.
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   2. Training to act in accordance with established rules;
      accustoming to systematic and regular action; drill.
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            Their wildness lose, and, quitting nature's part,
            Obey the rules and discipline of art. --Dryden.
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   3. Subjection to rule; submissiveness to order and control;
      habit of obedience.
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            The most perfect, who have their passions in the
            best discipline, are yet obliged to be constantly on
            their guard.                          --Rogers.
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   4. Severe training, corrective of faults; instruction by
      means of misfortune, suffering, punishment, etc.
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            A sharp discipline of half a century had sufficed to
            educate us.                           --Macaulay.
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   5. Correction; chastisement; punishment inflicted by way of
      correction and training.
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            Giving her the discipline of the strap. --Addison.
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   6. The subject matter of instruction; a branch of knowledge.
      --Bp. Wilkins.
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   7. (Eccl.) The enforcement of methods of correction against
      one guilty of ecclesiastical offenses; reformatory or
      penal action toward a church member.
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   8. (R. C. Ch.) Self-inflicted and voluntary corporal
      punishment, as penance, or otherwise; specifically, a
      penitential scourge.
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   9. (Eccl.) A system of essential rules and duties; as, the
      Romish or Anglican discipline.

   Syn: Education; instruction; training; culture; correction;
        chastisement; punishment.
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