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English Dictionary: disciplinary by the DICT Development Group
2 results for disciplinary
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
disciplinary
adj
  1. relating to discipline in behavior; "disciplinary problems in the classroom"
  2. relating to a specific field of academic study; "economics in its modern disciplinary sense"
  3. designed to promote discipline; "the teacher's action was corrective rather than instructional"; "disciplinal measures"; "the mother was stern and disciplinary"
    Synonym(s): corrective, disciplinary, disciplinal
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Disciplinary \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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