Discipline vs. Martinet
Disciplinenoun
A controlled behaviour; self-control.
Disciplinenoun
An enforced compliance or control.
Disciplinenoun
A systematic method of obtaining obedience.
Disciplinenoun
A state of order based on submission to authority.
Disciplinenoun
A punishment to train or maintain control.
Disciplinenoun
A whip used for self-flagellation.
Disciplinenoun
A set of rules regulating behaviour.
Disciplinenoun
A flagellation as a means of obtaining sexual gratification.
Disciplinenoun
A specific branch of knowledge or learning.
Disciplinenoun
A category in which a certain art, sport or other activity belongs.
Disciplineverb
(transitive) To train someone by instruction and practice.
Disciplineverb
(transitive) To teach someone to obey authority.
Disciplineverb
(transitive) To punish someone in order to (re)gain control.
Disciplineverb
(transitive) To impose order on someone.
Disciplinenoun
The treatment suited to a disciple or learner; education; development of the faculties by instruction and exercise; training, whether physical, mental, or moral.
Disciplinenoun
Training to act in accordance with established rules; accustoming to systematic and regular action; drill.
Disciplinenoun
Subjection to rule; submissiveness to order and control; habit of obedience.
Disciplinenoun
Severe training, corrective of faults; instruction by means of misfortune, suffering, punishment, etc.
Disciplinenoun
Correction; chastisement; punishment inflicted by way of correction and training.
Disciplinenoun
The subject matter of instruction; a branch of knowledge.
Disciplinenoun
The enforcement of methods of correction against one guilty of ecclesiastical offenses; reformatory or penal action toward a church member.
Disciplinenoun
Self-inflicted and voluntary corporal punishment, as penance, or otherwise; specifically, a penitential scourge.
Disciplinenoun
A system of essential rules and duties; as, the Romish or Anglican discipline.
Disciplineverb
To educate; to develop by instruction and exercise; to train.
Disciplineverb
To accustom to regular and systematic action; to bring under control so as to act systematically; to train to act together under orders; to teach subordination to; to form a habit of obedience in; to drill.
Disciplineverb
To improve by corrective and penal methods; to chastise; to correct.
Disciplineverb
To inflict ecclesiastical censures and penalties upon.
Disciplinenoun
a branch of knowledge;
Disciplinenoun
a system of rules of conduct or method of practice;
Disciplinenoun
the trait of being well behaved;
Disciplinenoun
training to improve strength or self-control
Disciplinenoun
the act of punishing;
Disciplineverb
train by instruction and practice; especially to teach self-control;
Disciplineverb
punish in order to gain control or enforce obedience;
Discipline
Discipline is action or inaction that is regulated to be in accordance (or to achieve accord) with a particular system of governance. Discipline is commonly applied to regulating human and animal behavior to its society or environment it belongs.
Martinetnoun
(military) A strict disciplinarian.
Martinetnoun
(figuratively) Anyone who lays stress on a rigid adherence to the details of discipline, or to forms and fixed methods or rules.
Martinetnoun
A martin; a swift.
Martinetnoun
In military language, a strict disciplinarian; in general, one who lays stress on a rigid adherence to the details of discipline, or to forms and fixed methods.
Martinetnoun
The martin.
Martinetnoun
someone who demands exact conformity to rules and forms
Martinet
The martinet () is a punitive device traditionally used in France and other parts of Europe. The word also has other usages, described below.
