Disciplinant (disiplinant)

[ A pedagogue, one not a little versed in the disciplinat ing of the juvenal frie. Sir P. Sidney, Wanstead Play, p. 619. nare, subject to discipline, chastise, The High-landers flocking to him [the Marquis of Montrose) from all quarters, though ill armed and worse dis ciplin'd , made him undervalue any enemy who, he thought, was yet to encounter him. Milton , Areopagitica. discipline (dis'i-plin), n. [ discipline , discepline , dis sip line , discipline , des cep line , decipline, desepline , F. discipline = Pr. Sp. Pg. It. disciplina = D. discipline = G. Dan. Sw. dis- ciplin , L. disciplina , also uncontr. disci pul in a , teaching, instruction, training, disci pulus , a learner, disciple: see disciple , n.] 1. Mental and moral training, either under one's own guid- ance or under that of another; the cultivation perusing and intently contemplating a few great models, of the mind and formation of the manners; instruction and government, comprehending the communication of knowledge and the regulation of practice; specifically, training to act in accordance with rules; drill: as, military disci pline; monastic discipline. Mi dere sone, first thi silf able With al thin herte to vertuose discipline . Babees Book (E. E. T. S.), p. 27. To the studie of religion I doe joyne the discipline of maners, and all civill doctrine and hystories. T. Browne, A Ritch Storehouse (1570), fol. 14. He openeth also their ear to discipline . Job xxxvi. 10. Their wildne lose, and, quitting nature's part, Obey the rules and discipline of art. Dryden, tr. of Virgil's Georgics, ii. 2. A set or system of rules and regulations; a method of regulating practice: as, the disci pline prescribed for the church. To give them the inventory of their cates aforehand were the discipline of a tavern. B. Jonson, Cynthia's Revels, Ind. Specifically, eccles.: (a) The laws which bind the subjects of a church in their conduct, as distinguished from the dogmas or articles of faith which affect their belief, (b) The methods employed by a church for enforcing its laws, and so preserving its purity or its authority by penal measures against offenders. Three kinds of discipline were known to the ancient synagogue, all of which are entitled excommunication. In most modern Protestant churches discipline consists of three penalties: public censure, suspension, and excommunication. 3. Subjection to rule; submi ivene to con They were with care prepared and disciplined for confirmation. Add is on, Defence of Christ. Relig. It is not by turning over libraries, but by repeatedly mind disciplined. Macaulay, A then i an Orators. That delightful labor of the imagination which is not mere arbitrarine , but the exercise of disciplined power -combining and constructing with the clearest eye for 180. G. Eliot , Middle march, probabilities and the fullest obedience to knowledge. 2. To correct; chastise; punish. Has he disciplined Aufidius soundly? Shak . , Cor., ii. 1. Half a dozen wretched creatures, who with their faces covered, but naked to the waist, are in a side chapel dis ciplining themselves with scourges full of iron prickles. Gray, Letters, I. 69. Specifically-3. To execute the laws of a church upon (an offender).-4. To keep in subjection; regulate; govern. Disciplining them [appetites] with fasting. Scott , Works, II. 26. = Syn. 1. To train, form, educate, instruct, drill, regulate. discipliner (dis'i-plin-er), n. One who disciplines. Had an angel been his discipliner . Milton , Areopagitica.