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Adjective: disciplinary  'di-su-plu`ne-ree [N. Amer], `di-su'pli-nu-ree [Brit]
  1. Relating to discipline in behaviour
    "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 mother was stern and disciplinary"
    - corrective, disciplinal

See also: discipline, nonindulgent, strict

Encyclopedia: Disciplinary