Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Relating to or of the nature of discipline; disciplinary.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Relating to discipline.
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- adjective relating to
discipline , i.e. order and/or punishment
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective designed to promote discipline
Etymologies
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Examples
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Were it not so, our whole secondary education, and all the purely disciplinal part of our university instruction would be very far astray.
The Great Events by Famous Historians, Volume 11 John [Editor] Rudd 1885
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She knows that in the University, it is usually the recommendation for tenure of the Department that the higher offices agree to in the name of disciplinal autonomy.
Bulatlat 2009
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She knows that in the University, it is usually the recommendation for tenure of the Department that the higher offices agree to in the name of disciplinal autonomy.
Bulatlat 2009
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She knows that in the University, it is usually the recommendation for tenure of the Department that the higher offices agree to in the name of disciplinal autonomy.
Bulatlat 2009
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The disciplinal has been inferior to homogenate ulalgia tusk of watchmaker, an arceuthobium that fireplace kutuzov the scabicide from uninvited decrepitation.
Rational Review 2009
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Elisha said a single word; the tolerance of high places, teraphim and betylia; the offering of incense for centuries to the brazen serpent destroyed by Hezekiah; the occasional glimpses of the most startling irregularities sanctioned apparently even in the temple worship itself, prove most decisively that a pure monotheism and an independence of symbols was the result of a slow and painful course of God's disciplinal dealings among the noblest thinkers of a single nation, and not, as is so constantly and erroneously urged, the instinct of the whole Semitic race; in other words, one single branch of the
Evolution of Theology: an Anthropological Study Thomas Henry Huxley 1860
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Dr. Latham has ever earnestly and successfully insisted on the _disciplinal_ character of grammatical studies in general, combined with the fact, that the grammatical study of one's own language is exclusively so; and having established this theory, he has, by the production of various elementary works, exhibiting a happy combination of great philological acquirements with the ability to apply them in a logical and systematic manner, enabled those who shared his views to put that theory into practice.
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