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Wordnet 3.0

ADJECTIVE (3)

1. relating to discipline in behavior;
- Example: "disciplinary problems in the classroom"

2. relating to a specific field of academic study;
- Example: "economics in its modern disciplinary sense"

3. designed to promote discipline;
- Example: "the teacher's action was corrective rather than instructional"
- Example: "disciplinal measures"
- Example: "the mother was stern and disciplinary"
[syn: corrective, disciplinary, disciplinal]


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. [1913 Webster] The evils of the . . . are disciplinary and remedial. --Buckminster. [1913 Webster]
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]
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