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Disciplined definitions

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Webster's 1828 Dictionary

DISCIPLINED, pp. Instructed; educated; subjected to rules and regulations; corrected; chastised; punished; admonished.

WordNet (r) 3.0 (2005)

adj
1: obeying the rules
2: trained mentally or physically by instruction or exercise; "the beautiful coordination of his disciplined muscles"; "a disciplined mind"

Merriam Webster's

adjective Date: 14th century marked by or possessing discipline <a disciplined mind>

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

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.

Collin's Cobuild Dictionary

Someone who is disciplined behaves or works in a controlled way. For me it meant being very disciplined about how I run my life... ADJ

Moby Thesaurus

Spartan, accepting, armed with patience, bound, bounded, conditioned, confined, copyrighted, cramped, endurant, enduring, finite, forbearing, indulgent, lenient, limited, long-suffering, longanimous, moderated, narrow, patented, patient, patient as Job, persevering, philosophical, prescribed, proscribed, qualified, restricted, self-controlled, stoic, strait, straitened, tolerant, tolerating, tolerative, understanding