n. | 1. | The treatment suited to a disciple or learner; education; development of the faculties by instruction and exercise; training, whether physical, mental, or moral. |
| 2. | Training to act in accordance with established rules; accustoming to systematic and regular action; drill. |
| 3. | Subjection to rule; submissiveness to order and control; habit of obedience. |
| 4. | Severe training, corrective of faults; instruction by means of misfortune, suffering, punishment, etc. |
| 5. | Correction; chastisement; punishment inflicted by way of correction and training. |
| 6. | The subject matter of instruction; a branch of knowledge. |
| 7. | (Eccl.) The enforcement of methods of correction against one guilty of ecclesiastical offenses; reformatory or penal action toward a church member. |
| 8. | (R. C. Ch.) Self-inflicted and voluntary corporal punishment, as penance, or otherwise; specifically, a penitential scourge. |
| 9. | (Eccl.) A system of essential rules and duties; as, the Romish or Anglican discipline. |
v. t. | 1. | To educate; to develop by instruction and exercise; to train. |
| 2. | To accustom to regular and systematic action; to bring under control so as to act systematically; to train to act together under orders; to teach subordination to; to form a habit of obedience in; to drill. |
| 3. | To improve by corrective and penal methods; to chastise; to correct. |
| 4. | To inflict ecclesiastical censures and penalties upon. |