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disciplinary, a. (n.)|ˈdɪsɪplɪnərɪ|
[ad. med.L. disciplīnāri-us, f. disciplīna discipline: see -ary1. Cf. It. disciplinario (1598 Florio) and F. disciplinaire (1611 Cotgr.).]
1. Relating to ecclesiastical discipline.
†b. spec. in 16–17th c. = Disciplinarian a. 1.
1593R. Bancroft Surv. Discipline xviii. 198 Of the disagreement about the new disciplinarie Deacons. Ibid. xix. 226 Amongest the Disciplinary brotherhoode. 1640R. Baillie Canterb. Self-Convict. 89 This to him..is doctrinall Puritanisme, much worse than disciplinary. 1641T. Edwards Reasons agst. Independ. Ep. Ded. 2 The chiefe question is about the..discipline of the Church, and our Controversie may fitly be tearmed the Disciplinary Controversie. 1702C. Mather Magn. Chr. i. v. (1853) I. 76 A few disciplinary points which are confessed indifferent by the greatest zealots for them. 1719J. T. Philipps tr. 34 Confer. 349 There is no disciplinary Institution observed among these Christians.
2. Of, pertaining to, or of the nature of discipline; promoting discipline or orderly observance of rules.
1598Florio, Disciplinario, disciplinarie, pertaining to discipline or correction. a1612Donne βιαθανατος (1644) 27 A man which undertook an austere and disciplinary taming of his body by fasts or corrections. 1825Coleridge Aids Refl. (1848) I. 303 That watchful and disciplinary love and loving-kindness, which..Christ himself had enjoined. 1865Sat. Rev. 2 Sept. 298/2 The internal disciplinary regulations of the celebrated seminary of Bonn savour a little of barbarism. 1866Law Times' Rep. LIII. 665/1 All these restrictions are merely disciplinary, and do not affect the tenancy.
b. Of a person: Given to enforcing discipline.
a1601Bacon Lett. to Earl of Essex (T.), It may make you in your commandments rather to be gracious than disciplinary.
3. Pertaining to the acquirement of learning or mental training.
1644Milton Educ. Wks. 1738 I. 139 The Studies wherin our noble and our gentle Youth ought to bestow their time in a disciplinary way from twelve to one and twenty. 1864Bowen Logic ii. 39 Encumbered it with a mass of disciplinary precepts. 1869J. Martineau Ess. II. 27 An excellent disciplinary instrument for the formation of character.
†4. Acquired by learning. Obs. rare.
1647Trapp Comm. Phil. iii. 10 A naturall man may have a disciplinary knowledge of Christ, that is, by hear-say, as a blinde man hath of colours, not an intuitive. 1658Baxter Saving Faith vi. 36 Temporary Believers may have more then this meer Disciplinary knowledge. Ibid. 37 He saith that one sort of knowledge is Disciplinary..and the other is Intuitive.
†B. n. = Disciplinarian n. i. Obs. rare.
1585–7Rogers 39 Art. (1607) 271 Such adversaries in our time be the..Disciplinaries (usually termed Puritans). |