1. In terms of BDSM, any activity in which one person trains another person to act or behave in a specified way, often by enforcing rigid codes of conduct or by inflicting punishment for failure to behave in the prescribed way.
2. Archaic Any instrument used to enforce discipline or to punish physically, such as a whip or crop.
The administration of training which results in the participant(s) becoming more physically, mentally, and/or spiritually adept.
"I've never known a man worth his salt who in the long run, deep down in his heart, didn't appreciate the grind, the discipline. There is something good in men that really yearns for discipline." ~Vince Lombardi
By Essie
Discipline
Function: noun
Etymology: Middle English, from Old French & Latin; Old French, from Latin disciplina teaching, learning, from discipulus pupil
1 : PUNISHMENT
2 obsolete : INSTRUCTION
3 : a field of study
4 : training that corrects, molds, or perfects the mental faculties or moral character 5 a : control gained by enforcing obedience or order b : orderly or prescribed conduct or pattern of behavior c : SELF-CONTROL
6 : a rule or system of rules governing conduct or activity
- dis·ci·plin·al
A word abusive parents use to justify beating their children. What do you call it when an undisciplined person gives disciplinary beatings to others? Hypocrisy.
I'm sick of people beating other people in the name of discipline when they themselves are the ones who need a beating.
Something a lot of people did not know about until they took a karate class or played a team sport in school, or from classes and not from home.
The girl first found out about discipline from a class at school and thought she knew how to make life help for people around her when really all she did was make life a weakpurgatory with a lack of any physical pain.