discipline

• a branch of knowledge
• To educate
• develop (children´s) behavior by instruction and practice
• punish in order to gain control or enforce obedience
• the act of punishing
• a system of rules of conduct or method of practice
• the trait of being well behaved
• training to improve strength or self-control
• The treatment suited to a disciple or learner
• Training to act in accordance with established rules
• Subjection to rule
• Severe training, corrective of faults
• Correction
• The subject matter of instruction
• The enforcement of methods of correction against one guilty of ecclesiastical offenses
• Self-inflicted and voluntary corporal punishment, as penance, or otherwise
• A system of essential rules and duties
• To accustom to regular and systematic action
• To improve by corrective and penal methods
• To inflict ecclesiastical censures and penalties upon

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