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Definition of Disciplined

1. Adjective. Obeying the rules.

2. Adjective. Trained mentally or physically by instruction or exercise. "A disciplined mind"

Definition of Disciplined

1. Adjective. Possessing mental discipline. ¹

2. Adjective. Punished for disobedience. ¹

3. Adjective. Under control. ¹

4. Verb. (past of discipline) ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Disciplined

1. discipline [v] - See also: discipline

Lexicographical Neighbors of Disciplined

discipleships discipless disciplesses disciplic disciplinable disciplinableness disciplinal disciplinant disciplinarian disciplinarians

disciplinarily disciplinarities disciplinarity disciplinary disciplined (current term) disciplineless discipliner discipliners disciplines discipling

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Literary usage of Disciplined

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Massachusetts Teacher by Massachusetts Teachers Federation, Massachusetts Teachers' Association (1853)
"... when the will is exalted by allegiance to it made free in the liberty of acquiescence with the Infinite; when the intellect is disciplined, ..."

2. Dictionary of National Biography by LESLIE. STEPHEN (1887)
"... and he stated an idea of toleration which was soon fruitful of results. carefully trained and disciplined. ..."

3. The Library of Literary Criticism of English and American Authors by Charles Wells Moulton (1904)
"... the sensitive eagerness of his mind, however it was disciplined into patience, always led him to see much more clearly that in life which is modifiable, ..."

4. The New Schaff-Herzog Encyclopedia of Religious Knowledge: Embracing by Johann Jakob Herzog, Philip Schaff, Albert Hauck (1910)
"Rigidly his converts must be disciplined in the subordination of the spectacular gifts of the Spirit, " miracles," " tongues," " prophecies," to the ..."

5. History of the World War by Frank Herbert Simonds (1919)
"... organized, disciplined force; we shall find it in the spring of 1917 a mob, destitute of discipline, courage, loyalty. It was destined to disappear, ..."

6. A Library of American Literature from the Earliest Settlement to the Present by Edmund Clarence Stedman, Ellen Mackay Hutchinson (1887)
"HOW THE FATHERS disciplined GOVERNOR VANE. [From the Same.] governor, receiving letters from his friends in England, which necessarily required his presence ..."

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