Meaning of DISCIPLINARY
| Pronunciation: | | 'disuplu`neree
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- [adj] designed to promote discipline; "the teacher's action was corrective rather than instructional"; "disciplinal measures"; "the mother was stern and disciplinary"
- [adj] relating to a specific field of academic study; "economics in its modern disciplinary sense"
- [adj] relating to discipline in behavior; "disciplinary problems in the classroom"
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| | Synonyms: | | corrective, disciplinal, nonindulgent |
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| Webster's 1913 Dictionary |
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| | Definition: | | \Dis"ci*plin*a*ry\, a. [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.
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| | Related Terms: | | autodidactic, castigatory, chastening, chastising, coeducational, corrective, cultural, didactic, edifying, educating, educational, educative, enlightening, exhortatory, grueling, homiletic, hortatory, illuminating, inflictive, informative, initiatory, instructive, introductory, lecturing, penal, penological, preaching, preceptive, propaedeutic, punishing, punitive, punitory, retributive, scholarly, scientific, self-teaching, teaching, technical, technicological, technological, tuitionary |
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