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Discipline, n. Also: dyscypline, disciplyn(e, dischipline, deciplin; disciplen(e, -leine. [ME. discipline (a 1225), -lyne, etc., OF. discipline, L. disciplīna.]

1. Discipline, training, correction. In later use esp. as exercised by the church over its members.(a) a1400 Legends of the Saints xxvii. 807 (til vndirly his dyscypline). a1400 Ib. xxxvi. 619 (of verray treutht the discipline). c1490 Irland Asl. MS. I. 24/16 (disciplyne that religious men … takis for thair syn). 1535 Antiq. Aberd. & B. III. 492 (that he be … twa dais in the ovik … at his disciplyne). 1564 St. A. Kirk S. 191 (to underly al maner of disciplyn of the kyrk). 1581 Lanark B. Rec. 80 (the deciplin of the kirk). 1595 Logie Par. Hist. I. 44 (the censurs of the kirk according to the bwik of discipline). 1611 Lothian Dioc. Synod 114 (the dischipline that ministers hes). 1676 Inverness Presb. 72 (to send him back to satisfie the kirk discipline).attrib. 1606 Birnie Kirk-b. xviii. 32 (so should kirk-pastors now ding it with the discipline rod).(b) 15.. Clariodus iii. 868 (hir maistres gave hir quyet discipleine). 1582 Declar. Causis 9 (the disciplene of the kirk). 1622-6 Bisset II. 260/22 (disciplene and ordour … for malefactouris). 1620 Ann. Banff II. 167 (the youthe … committed to his cuire and disciplen).

2. A branch of study or learning. c1500-c1512 Dunb. lxv. 4.
To speik of science, craft, or sapience … Off euerie study, lair, or discipline 1599 Acts IV. 187/1.
To writ, prent or publische ony buiks in quhatsoeuir discipline or science