Disciplinary

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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.

Adj.	1.	disciplinary - relating to discipline in behavior; "disciplinary problems in the classroom"
	2.	disciplinary - relating to a specific field of academic study; "economics in its modern disciplinary sense"
	3.	disciplinary - designed to promote discipline; "the teacher's action was corrective rather than instructional"; "disciplinal measures"; "the mother was stern and disciplinary" Synonyms: corrective, disciplinal

autodidactic, castigatory, chastening, chastising, coeducational, corrective, cultural, didactic, edifying, educating, educational, educative, enlightening, exhortatory, grueling, homiletic, hortatory, illuminating, inflictive, informative, initiatory, instructive, introductory, lecturing, penal, penological, preaching, preceptive, propaedeutic, punishing, punitive, punitory, retributive, scholarly, scientific, self-teaching, teaching, technical, technicological, technological, tuitionary

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