Discipline
Pronunciation
- US IPA: /ˈdɪ.sə.plɪn/
Origin
From Middle English, from Anglo-Norman, from Old French descipline, from Latin disciplina ("instruction") and discipulus ("pupil"), from discere ("to learn"), from Proto-Indo-European *dek- ("(cause to) accept").
Full definition of discipline
Noun
discipline
(plural disciplines)- A controlled behaviour; self-control.
- RogersThe 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, “Piracy”: A Romantic Chronicle of These Days Chapter 1/1/2, The masters looked unusually stern, but it was the sternness of thought rather than of discipline.
- A systematic method of obtaining obedience.
- C. J. SmithDiscipline aims at the removal of bad habits and the substitution of good ones, especially those of order, regularity, and obedience.
- A state of order based on submission to authority.
- DrydenTheir wildness lose, and, quitting nature's part,
Obey the rules and discipline of art. - A punishment to train or maintain control.
- Addisongiving her the discipline of the strap
- A set of rules regulating behaviour.
- A flagellation as a means of obtaining sexual gratification.
- A specific branch of knowledge or learning.
- 2013-08-03, Boundary problems, Economics is a messy discipline: too fluid to be a science, too rigorous to be an art. Perhaps it is fitting that economists’ most-used metric, gross domestic product (GDP), is a tangle too. GDP measures the total value of output in an economic territory. Its apparent simplicity explains why it is scrutinised down to tenths of a percentage point every month.
- A category in which a certain art, sport or other activity belongs.
Antonyms
- (controlled behaviour et al.) spontaneity