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.
Syn. — Education; instruction; training; culture; correction; chastisement; punishment.
Discipline
(Dis"ci*pline) v. t. [imp. & p. p. Disciplined ; p. pr. & vb. n. Disciplining.] [Cf. LL. disciplinarian
to flog, fr. L. disciplina discipline, and F. discipliner to discipline.]
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.
Ill armed, and worse disciplined.
Clarendon.
His mind . . . imperfectly disciplined by nature.
Macaulay. 3. To improve by corrective and penal methods; to chastise; to correct.
Has he disciplined Aufidius soundly?
Shak. 4. To inflict ecclesiastical censures and penalties upon.
Syn. — To train; form; teach; instruct; bring up; regulate; correct; chasten; chastise; punish.
Discipliner
(Dis"ci*plin*er) n. One who disciplines.
Disclaim
(Dis*claim") v. t. [imp. & p. p. Disclaimed ; p. pr. & vb. n. Disclaiming.]
1. To renounce all claim to deny; ownership of, or responsibility for; to disown; to disavow; to reject.
He calls the gods to witness their offense;
Disclaims the war, asserts his innocence.
Dryden.
He disclaims the authority of Jesus.
Farmer. 2. To deny, as a claim; to refuse.
The payment was irregularly made, if not disclaimed.
Milman. 3. (Law) To relinquish or deny having a claim; to disavow another's claim; to decline accepting, as an
estate, interest, or office. Burrill.
Syn. — To disown; disavow; renounce; repudiate.
Disclaim
(Dis*claim"), v. t. To disavow or renounce all part, claim, or share. Blackstone.
Disclaim in, Disclaim from, to disown; to disavow. [Obs.] "Nature disclaims in thee." Shak.
Disclaimer
(Dis*claim"er) n.
1. One who disclaims, disowns, or renounces.
2. (Law) A denial, disavowal, or renunciation, as of a title, claim, interest, estate, or trust; relinquishment
or waiver of an interest or estate. Burrill.
3. A public disavowal, as of pretensions, claims, opinions, and the like. Burke.
