disciplinal, a.
(ˈdɪsɪplɪnəl, dɪsɪˈplaɪnəl)
[ad. med.L. disciplīnāl-is (Du Cange), f. disciplīna discipline: see -al1.]
† 1. = disciplinable 1. Obs.
| a 1628 Preston New Covt. (1634) 144 Those two [seeing and hearing] are the only disciplinal senses we have. |
2. Of, belonging to, or of the nature of discipline.
| 1853 E. J. Shepherd 3rd Let. to Dr. Maitland 9 By strong expositions of disciplinal views. 1855 G. Brimley Ess. 16 (Tennyson) Pain that serves no disciplinal aim. 1863 M. Pattison Serm. (1885) 88 The..struggle of the disciplinal system of education against the doctrinal. 1881 Fitch Lect. Teaching iv. 107 One of the hardest of the disciplinal problems of a boarding-school is the regulation of the employments of Sunday. Ibid. ix. 256 All study of language is in itself disciplinal. |