Dictionary: DIS-CI'PLE-SHIP – DIS-CLOS'URE

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DIS-CI'PLE-SHIP, n.

The state of a disciple or follower in doctrines and precepts. – Hammond.

DIS-CI-PLIN'A-BLE, a. [See Discipline.]

  1. Capable of instruction, and improvement in learning.
  2. That may be subjected to discipline; as, a disciplinable offense, in church government.
  3. Subject or liable to discipline, as the member of a church.

DIS-CI-PLIN'A-BLE-NESS, n.

  1. Capacity of receiving instruction by education. – Hale.
  2. The state of being subject to discipline.

DIS'CI-PLIN-ANT, n.

One of a religions order, so called from their practice of scourging themselves, or other rigid discipline. – Smollett.

DIS-CI-PLIN-A'RI-AN, a.

Pertaining to discipline. – Glanville.

DIS-CI-PLIN-A'RI-AN, n.

  1. One who disciplines; one versed in rules, principles and practice, and who teaches them with precision; particularly, one who instructs in military and naval tactics and maneuvers. It is chiefly used in the latter sense, and especially for one who is well versed in, or teaches with exactness, military exercises and evolutions.
  2. A puritan or presbyterian; so called from his rigid adherence to religious discipline. – Sanderson. [I believe not now used.]

DIS'CI-PLIN-A-RY, a.

  1. Pertaining to discipline; intended for discipline or government; promoting discipline; as, certain canons of the church are disciplinary.
  2. Relating to a regular course of education; intended for instruction. – Milton. The evils of life, pain, sickness, losses, sorrows, dangers and disappointments, are disciplinary and remedial. – Buckminster.

DIS'CI-PLINE, n. [L. disciplina, from disco, to learn.]

  1. Education; instruction; cultivation and improvement, comprehending instruction in arts, sciences, correct sentiments, morals and manners, and due subordination to authority.
  2. Instruction and government, comprehending the communication of knowledge and the regulation of practice; as, military discipline, which includes instruction in manual exercise, evolutions and subordination.
  3. Rule of government; method of regulating principles and practice; as, the discipline prescribed for the church.
  4. Subjection to laws, rules, order, precepts or regulations; as, the troops are under excellent discipline; the passions should be kept under strict discipline.
  5. Correction; chastisement; punishment intended to correct crimes or errors; as, the discipline of the strap. – Addison.
  6. In ecclesiastical affairs, the execution of the laws by which the church is governed, and infliction of the penalties enjoined against offenders, who profess the religion of Jesus Christ. – Encyc.
  7. Chastisement or bodily punishment inflicted on a delinquent in the Romish church; or that chastisement or external mortification which a religious person inflicts on himself. – Taylor. Encyc.

DIS'CI-PLINE, v.t.

  1. To instruct or educate; to inform the mind; to prepare by instructing in correct principles and habits; as, to discipline youth for a profession, or for future usefulness.
  2. To instruct and govern; to teach rules and practice, and accustom to order and subordination; as, to discipline troops or an army.
  3. To correct; to chastise; to punish.
  4. To execute the laws of the church on offenders, with a view to bring them to repentance and reformation of life.
  5. To advance and prepare by instruction. – Milton.

DIS'CI-PLIN-ED, pp.

Instructed; educated; subjected to rules and regulations; corrected; chastised; punished; admonished.

DIS-CI-PLIN'ER, n.

One who disciplines or teaches.

DIS'CI-PLIN-ING, ppr.

Instructing; educating; subjecting to order and subordination; correcting; chastising; admonishing; punishing.

DIS-CLAIM', v.i.

To disavow all part or share. [Unusual.] Nature disclaims in thee. – Shak.

DIS-CLAIM', v.t. [dis and claim.]

  1. To disown; to disavow; to deny the possession of; to reject as not belonging to one's self. A man disclaims all knowledge of a particular transaction; he disclaims every pretension to eloquence; he disclaims any right to interfere in the affairs of his neighbor; he disclaims all pretension to military skill. It is opposed to claim or challenge.
  2. To renounce; to reject; as, to disclaim the authority of the pope.
  3. To deny all claim. A tenant may disclaim to hold of his lord. – Eng. Law.

DIS-CLAIM-A'TION, n.

The act of disclaiming; a disavowing. [Not used.] – Scott.

DIS-CLAIM'ED, pp.

Disowned; disavowed; rejected; denied.

DIS-CLAIM'ER, n.

  1. A person who disclaims, disowns or renounces.
  2. In law, an express or implied denial by a tenant that he holds an estate of his lord; a denial of tenure, by plea or otherwise. – Blackstone.

DIS-CLAIM'ING, ppr.

Disowning; disavowing; denying; renouncing.

DIS-CLA-MA'TION, n.

Act of disclaiming.

DIS-CLOSE', n.

An uncovering. – Young.

DIS-CLOSE', v.t. [disclo'ze; dis and close; Fr. declorre, declos; L. discludo. See Close.]

  1. To uncover; to open; to remove a cover from, and lay open to the view. The shells being broken, the stone included in them is disclosed. – Woodward.
  2. To cause to appear; to lay open to the view; to bring to light. Events have disclosed the designs of the ministry.
  3. To reveal by words; to tell; to utter; as, to disclose the secret thoughts of the heart.
  4. To make known; to show in any manner. A blush may disclose a secret passion in the breast.
  5. To open; to hatch. [Not used.] The ostrich layeth her eggs under sand, where the heat of the sun discloseth them. – Bacon.

DIS-CLOS'ED, pp.

Uncovered; opened to view; made known; revealed; told; uttered.

DIS-CLOS'ER, n.

One who discloses or reveals.

DIS-CLOS'ING, ppr.

Uncovering; opening to view; revealing; making known; telling.

DIS-CLOS'URE, n. [disclo'zhur.]

  1. The act of disclosing; an uncovering and opening to view. – Bacon.
  2. The act of revealing; utterance of what was secret; a telling.
  3. The act of making known what was concealed.
  4. That which is disclosed or made known.