Associations to the word «Disciplinary»

Wiktionary

DISCIPLINARY, adjective. Having to do with discipline, or with the imposition of discipline.
DISCIPLINARY, adjective. For the purpose of imposing punishment.
DISCIPLINARY, adjective. Of or relating to an academic field of study.
DISCIPLINARY, noun. A disciplinary action.

Dictionary definition

DISCIPLINARY, adjective. Relating to discipline in behavior; "disciplinary problems in the classroom".
DISCIPLINARY, adjective. Relating to a specific field of academic study; "economics in its modern disciplinary sense".
DISCIPLINARY, adjective. Designed to promote discipline; "the teacher's action was corrective rather than instructional"; "disciplinal measures"; "the mother was stern and disciplinary".

Wise words

Words are always getting conventionalized to some secondary meaning. It is one of the works of poetry to take the truants in custody and bring them back to their right senses.
William Butler Yeats