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Wordnet 3.0

ADJECTIVE (3)

1. relating to discipline in behavior;
- Example: "disciplinary problems in the classroom"

2. relating to a specific field of academic study;
- Example: "economics in its modern disciplinary sense"

3. designed to promote discipline;
- Example: "the teacher's action was corrective rather than instructional"
- Example: "disciplinal measures"
- Example: "the mother was stern and disciplinary"
[syn: corrective, disciplinary, disciplinal]



The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:

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.
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         Those canons . . . were only disciplinary. --Bp. Ferne.
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         The evils of the . . . are disciplinary and remedial.
                                                  --Buckminster.
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WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):

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" [syn:
       corrective, disciplinary, disciplinal]