disciplinary
from
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}]
from
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.
[1913 Webster]
Those canons . . . were only disciplinary. --Bp. Ferne.
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The evils of the . . . are disciplinary and remedial.
--Buckminster.
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from
Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0
41 Moby Thesaurus words for "disciplinary":
autodidactic, castigatory, chastening, chastising, coeducational,
corrective, cultural, didactic, edifying, educating, educational,
educative, enlightening, exhortatory, grueling, homiletic,
hortatory, illuminating, inflictive, informative, initiatory,
instructive, introductory, lecturing, penal, penological,
preaching, preceptive, propaedeutic, punishing, punitive, punitory,
retributive, scholarly, scientific, self-teaching, teaching,
technical, technicological, technological, tuitionary
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