Emily Dickinson Lexicon

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.