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well(-)ˈdisciplined, ppl. a.
1. Kept under good discipline; strictly trained or controlled.
1595[Lewkenor] Estate Engl. Fugitives R iv, Like wel disciplined souldiours that keepe still good and warie watch, though they be neuer so farre from the enemie. 1642Earl of Cork in Earl Orrery St. Lett. (1742) 8 These seasoned and well disciplined companies. 1702J. Dennis Ess. Navy title-p., England's Advantage and Safety, prov'd Dependant on a Formidable and well-Disciplined Navy. 1768–74Tucker Lt. Nat. (1834) II. 339 A well-disciplined imagination. 1849Macaulay Hist. Eng. v. I. 528 The power of self-government which is characteristic of men trained in well disciplined camps to command and to obey. 1849C. Brontë Shirley x, At first sight, all but peculiarly well⁓disciplined minds were apt to turn from her with annoyance.
2. Soundly flogged.
1659–60Arsy Versy vi, It did now, like a Truant's well⁓disciplined Bum, With the rod of affliction harder become. |