disciplinary

Founding-era definition · Webster's 1828 American Dictionary

DISCIPLINARY, adjective 1. Pertaining to discipline; intended for discipline or government; promoting discipline; as, certain canons of the church are disciplinary 2. Relating to a regular course of education; intended for instruction. The evils of life, pain, sickness, losses, sorrows, dangers and disappointments, are disciplinary and remedial.
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