0 present participle of discipline --
1 to punish someone: --
2 to teach someone to behave in a controlled way: --
[ + to infinitive ] I'm trying to discipline myself to eat less chocolate.
Disciplining an outsider on the shop floor is in many ways less problematic than disciplining a relative.
Neoliberal reforms that augment the disciplining effect of international economic competition offer no guarantee of restrictive macroeconomic policies nor of investor confidence.
After the 1880s this ' booming, burgeoning ' society slows down through a process of 'recolonization ', disciplining nineteenth-century energies into tighter regimes of dependency.
Beyond this disciplining aspect, however, such attentiveness to detail in design and layout contributed to an atmosphere of privacy and exclusivity.
The adaptive maternal representation composite was derived by averaging the sum of positive and disciplining maternal representation codes.
Disciplining oneself to master these standards developed ethical character in practitioners.
The particular provincial gloss on it is that this disciplining is for nothing.
It was not, however, the preferred method of disciplining the body politic.
