disciplinary Meaning, Definition & Usage

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

WordNet

Dis"ci*plin*a*ry adjective
Etymology
LL. disciplinarius flogging: cf. F. disciplinaire.
Definitions
  1. 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.

Webster 1913