DISCIPLINARY

corrective, disciplinary, disciplinal

(adjective) designed to promote discipline; “the teacher’s action was corrective rather than instructional”; “disciplinal measures”; “the mother was stern and disciplinary”

disciplinary

(adjective) relating to a specific field of academic study; “economics in its modern disciplinary sense”

disciplinary

(adjective) relating to discipline in behavior; “disciplinary problems in the classroom”

Source: WordNet® 3.1

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Etymology

Adjective

disciplinary (comparative more disciplinary, superlative most disciplinary)

Having to do with discipline, or with the imposition of discipline.

For the purpose of imposing punishment.

Of or relating to an academic field of study.

Noun

disciplinary (plural disciplinaries)

A disciplinary action.

Source: Wiktionary

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Dis"ci*plin*a*ry, a. Etym: [LL. disciplinarius flogging: cf. F. disciplinaire.]

Definition: Pertaining to discipline; intended for discipline; corrective; belonging to a course of training. Those canons . . . were only disciplinary. Bp. Ferne. The evils of the . . . are disciplinary and remedial. Buckminster.

Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition

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