Clues for the word "DISCIPLINE"
We've had 10 crossword clues used for this word, and seen it 9 times in crosswords. It was last seen in Guardian Quiptic crossword on January 15, 2018.
Definition of discipline
- n. - The treatment suited to a disciple or learner; education; development of the faculties by instruction and exercise; training, whether physical, mental, or moral.
- n. - Training to act in accordance with established rules; accustoming to systematic and regular action; drill.
- n. - Subjection to rule; submissiveness to order and control; habit of obedience.
- n. - Severe training, corrective of faults; instruction by means of misfortune, suffering, punishment, etc.
- n. - Correction; chastisement; punishment inflicted by way of correction and training.
- n. - The subject matter of instruction; a branch of knowledge.
- n. - The enforcement of methods of correction against one guilty of ecclesiastical offenses; reformatory or penal action toward a church member.
- n. - Self-inflicted and voluntary corporal punishment, as penance, or otherwise; specifically, a penitential scourge.
- n. - A system of essential rules and duties; as, the Romish or Anglican discipline.
- v. t. - To educate; to develop by instruction and exercise; to train.
- v. t. - 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.
- v. t. - To improve by corrective and penal methods; to chastise; to correct.
- v. t. - To inflict ecclesiastical censures and penalties upon.
Referring Clues
- Headmaster's faculty
- Call on the carpet
- Regular regimen
- Training designed to engender self-control
- Punishment as part of learning
- Correction as part of learning
- One who follows another about in training
- Self-control and a bit of spine give rise to good ancestry
- Punish follower for going round home
- Punish
Last Seen In
- Guardian Quiptic - January 15, 2018
- Guardian Cryptic - September 11, 2017
- Guardian Quick - May 06, 2013
- Guardian Cryptic - November 25, 2011
- Guardian Cryptic - September 13, 2010
- LA Times - January 02, 2008
- New York Times - March 10, 2007
- Washington Post - July 30, 2002
- Guardian Quiptic - February 26, 2001