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discipline

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1. discipline - Noun

2. discipline - Verb

Meaning

The treatment suited to a disciple or learner; education; development of the faculties by instruction and exercise; training, whether physical, mental, or moral.

Training to act in accordance with established rules; accustoming to systematic and regular action; drill.

Subjection to rule; submissiveness to order and control; habit of obedience.

Severe training, corrective of faults; instruction by means of misfortune, suffering, punishment, etc.

Correction; chastisement; punishment inflicted by way of correction and training.

The subject matter of instruction; a branch of knowledge.

The enforcement of methods of correction against one guilty of ecclesiastical offenses; reformatory or penal action toward a church member.

Self-inflicted and voluntary corporal punishment, as penance, or otherwise; specifically, a penitential scourge.

A system of essential rules and duties; as, the Romish or Anglican discipline.

To educate; to develop by instruction and exercise; to train.

To accustom to regular and systematic action; to bring under control so as to act systematically; to train to act together under orders; to teach subordination to; to form a habit of obedience in; to drill.

To improve by corrective and penal methods; to chastise; to correct.

To inflict ecclesiastical censures and penalties upon.

Source: Webster's dictionary

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Discipline is the mother of victory. Alexander Suvorov

You can judge the quality of their faith from the way they behave. Discipline is an index to doctrine. Tertullian

Discipline is the soul of an army. It makes small numbers formidable, procures success to the weak, and esteem to all. George Washington

He who lives without discipline dies without honor. Icelandic Proverb

Discipline awaits he who leaves his path. Moroccan Proverb

There is no luck except where there is discipline. Irish Proverb

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