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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.