disciplinate

present singular third person disciplinates · participle present disciplinating · participle past disciplinated · past disciplinated

1. archaicSynonym of discipline.

   How Gargantua was instructed by Ponocrates, and in such sort disciplinated, that he lost not one hour of the Day

   1653, Francis Rabelais [i.e., François Rabelais], translated by [Thomas Urquhart, Peter Anthony Motteux], The Works of Francis Rabelais, Doctor in Physick: Containing Five Books of the Lives, Heroick Deeds, and Sayings of Gargantua, and His Sonne Pantagruel. […], London: […] [Thomas Ratcliffe and Edward Mottershead] for Richard Baddeley, […], →OCLC; republished in volume I, London: […] Navarre Society […], [1948], →OCLC, 1st book, page 67

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   I am Potentiſsima Domina, a ſchoole-maiſter, that is to ſay, a Pedagogue, one not a litle verſed in the diſciplinating of the iuuentall frie, wherein (to my laud I ſay it) I vſe ſuch geometricall proportion, as neither wanted manſuetude nor correction, for ſo it is deſcribed.

   The New Arcadia

   c. 1578–1579 (first performance), Philip Sidney, “Her Most Excellent Maiestie Walking in Wansteed Garden, […]”, in [Mary Sidney], editor, The Countesse of Pembrokes Arcadia […] [The New Arcadia], 3rd edition, London: […] [John Windet] for William Ponsonbie, published 1598, →OCLC, page 571

   And againe, aſking whether all refoꝛmed Churches are diſciplinated alike he ſayth, Nay; they neyther are, can be, nor yet neede ſo to be: ſeeing it cannot be prooued, that any set & exact perticuler forme thereof, is recommended to vs by the Worde of God, pag. 58.

   [1584], [variously attributed to Dudley Fenner, William Stoughton, and Henry Jacob], “Of the certaine forme of Ecclesiasticall Gouernment, prescribed by the Word of God, and perpetuall for all ages”, in A Counter-Poyson, Modestly Written for the Time, to Make Aunswere to the Obiections and Reproches, Wherewith the Aunswerer to the Abstract, Would Disgrace the Holy Discipline of Christ, London: […] Robert Waldegraue, page 3

   In recent times, the question concerning the compelling need, for the human being, to disciplinate itself, and even “tame” or domesticate itself, in order to really become a human being (“an animal that can say: ‘I’”) has been emphasized, among others, by the Italian philosopher Felice Cimatti.

   2017 June, Stefano Marino, “Nietzsche and McDowell on The Second Nature of The Human Being”, in Stefan Afloroaei, Corneliu Bilba, George Bondor, editors, Meta: Research in Hermeneutics, Phenomenology, and Practical Philosophy, volume IX, number 1, Iași: Alexandru Ioan Cuza University Press, →ISSN, page 255

   Synonyms: discipline