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Webster 1913 Edition
Disciplinary
Dis′ci-plin-a-ry
,Adj.
[LL.
disciplinarius
flogging: cf. F. disciplinaire
.] Pertaining to discipline; intended for discipline; corrective; belonging to a course of training.
Those canons . . . were only
disciplinary
. Bp. Ferne.
The evils of the . . . are
disciplinary
and remedial. Buckminster.
Webster 1828 Edition
Disciplinary
DISCIPLINARY
,Adj.
1.
Pertaining to discipline; intended for discipline or government; promoting discipline; as, certain canons of the church are disciplinary.2.
Relating to a regular course of education; intended for instruction.The evils of life, pain, sickness, losses, sorrows, dangers and disappointments, are disciplinary and remedial.
Definition 2024
disciplinary
disciplinary
English
Adjective
disciplinary (comparative more disciplinary, superlative most disciplinary)
- Having to do with discipline, or with the imposition of discipline.
- Debt can motivate or act as a disciplinary force for executives to achieve organizational efficiency.
- For the purpose of imposing punishment.
- The school has announced that it will take disciplinary measures against the students who participated in the protest activities.
- Of or relating to an academic field of study.
- 2012 January 1, Stephen Ledoux, “Behaviorism at 100”, in American Scientist, volume 100, number 1, page 60:
- Becoming more aware of the progress that scientists have made on behavioral fronts can reduce the risk that other natural scientists will resort to mystical agential accounts when they exceed the limits of their own disciplinary training.
- We hope that psychologists will applaud good studies of scientific behavior and thought regardless of the disciplinary specialty of the author.
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Translations
Having to do with discipline, or with the imposition of discipline
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For the purpose of imposing punishment
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Of or relating to an academic field of study
Noun
disciplinary (plural disciplinaries)
- A disciplinary action.