discipline(1) (iou) and Nikolsky (medicine)

discipline(1) (iou)

discipline noun. ME.
[Old & mod. French from Latin disciplina, from discipulus DISCIPLE noun.]
Chastisement or correction undergone as a penance, self-mortification. Also, a beating or similar punishment. ME.
J. Sergeant If any be found unchast, she receives three Disciplines or scourgings.
b. A scourge or whip, esp. as an instrument of penance. E17.
a. Instruction given to pupils or disciples; teaching, Education. LME-E17.
b. A particular course of discipleship or corpus of doctrines. rare. M17.
Discipline of the Secret the practice ascribed to the early Church of excluding catechumens and pagans from certain doctrines and rites.
A branch of learning or scholarly instruction. LME.
Lancet Disciplines such as biochemistry and immunology.
Instruction fitting one to perform an activity; Training. Freq. fig., moral progress brought about by adversity etc. LME.
b. spec. Training in military exercises etc.; drill. Formerly, knowledge of military tactics; the Art of war. LME.
c. Medical treatment, regimen. rare. M18-E19.
Controlled and orderly behaviour resulting from Training. E16.
H. H. Kitchener It will be your duty..to set an example of discipline and perfect steadiness under fire.
b. The system of order and strict obedience to rules enforced among pupils, soldiers, or others under authority; a particular instance of this. M17.
F. Marryat A flagrant..violation of discipline. M. Pattison The inmates..were submitted to an almost monastic discipline. M. Edwardes Taking the company as a whole discipline was lax.
The system by which a Church maintains order and exercises control over its members. M16.
b. The system by which the practices of a Church (as opp. to its doctrines) are regulated; spec. (Ecclesiastical History) the Calvinist polity, adopted by the Presbyterians and Puritans. M16.

Nikolsky (medicine)

Nikolsky

Pyotr V., Russian dermatologist, 1858-1940.

See: Nikolsky's sign.

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