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DISCIPLINED
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I. (adjective)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Obeying the rules
Classified under:
Similar:
controlled (restrained or managed or kept within certain bounds)
Sense 2
Meaning:
Trained mentally or physically by instruction or exercise
Example:
a disciplined mind
Classified under:
Similar:
trained (shaped or conditioned or disciplined by training; often used as a combining form)
II. (verb)
Sense 1
Past simple / past participle of the verb discipline
Context examples:
I was spared the trouble of answering, for Bessie seemed in too great a hurry to listen to explanations; she hauled me to the washstand, inflicted a merciless, but happily brief scrub on my face and hands with soap, water, and a coarse towel; disciplined my head with a bristly brush, denuded me of my pinafore, and then hurrying me to the top of the stairs, bid me go down directly, as I was wanted in the breakfast-room.
(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)
With a reluctant backward glance the well-disciplined child held to her nurse's hand and was pulled out the door, just as Tom came back, preceding four gin rickeys that clicked full of ice.
(The Great Gatsby, by F. Scott Fitzgerald)
