discipline

noun

1. (countable, uncountable)A controlled behaviour; self-control.

   “The most perfect, who have their passions in the best discipline, are yet obliged to be constantly on their guard.”

2. (countable, uncountable)A controlled behaviour; self-control.

   “The masters looked unusually stern, but it was the sternness of thought rather than of discipline.”

3. (countable, uncountable)A controlled behaviour; self-control.

   “Discipline aims at the removal of bad habits and the substitution of good ones, especially those of order, regularity, and obedience.”

   “Endure hardship as discipline; God is treating you as his children. For what children are not disciplined by their father?”

4. (countable, uncountable)A controlled behaviour; self-control.

   “Their wildness lose, and, quitting nature's part, / Obey the rules and discipline of art.”

5. (countable, uncountable)A controlled behaviour; self-control.
6. (countable, uncountable)A controlled behaviour; self-control.

   “giving her the discipline of the strap”

7. (countable, uncountable)A controlled behaviour; self-control.

   “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.”

8. (countable, uncountable)A controlled behaviour; self-control.
9. (countable, uncountable)A specific branch of knowledge, learning, or practice.

   “Near-synonyms: specialty, speciality, specialism”

   “academic disciplines”

   “Economics is a messy discipline: too fluid to be a science, too rigorous to be an art.”

   “This mathematical discipline, by the help of geometrical principles, doth teach to contrive several weights and powers unto motion or rest.”

10. (countable, uncountable)A specific branch of knowledge, learning, or practice.

verb

1. (transitive)To train someone by instruction and practice.
2. (transitive)To teach someone to obey authority.
3. (transitive)To punish someone in order to (re)gain control.
4. (transitive)To impose order on someone.