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Capable of being disciplined or improved by instruction and training.

The quality of being improvable by discipline. Sir M. Hale.

Relating to discipline. Latham.

A flagellant. See Flagellant.

Pertaining to discipline. "Displinarian system." Milman.

Pertaining to discipline; intended for discipline; corrective; belonging to a course of training. Those canons . . . were only disciplinary. Bp. Ferne. The evils of the . . . are disciplinary and remedial. Buckminster.

The treatment suited to a disciple or learner; education; development of the faculties by instruction and exercise; training, whether physical, mental, or moral. Wife and children are a kind of discipline of humanity. Bacon. Discipline aims at the removal of bad habits and the substitution of good ones, especially thos…

One who disciplines.

To renounce all claim to deny; ownership of, or responsibility for; to disown; to disavow; to reject. He calls the gods to witness their offense; Disclaims the war, asserts his innocence. Dryden. He disclaims the authority of Jesus. Farmer.

One who disclaims, disowns, or renounces.

A disavowing or disowning. Bp. Hall.

To disclaim; to expel. [Obs.] "Money did love disclame." Spenser.

To injure one's good name; to slander. [Obs.]

To take off a cloak from; to uncloak. [Obs.] B. Jonson.

s in the sense of to hatch. The ostrich layeth her eggs under sand, where the heat of the discloseth them. Bacon.

Represented with wings expanded; -- applied to doves and other birds not of prey. Cussans.

One who discloses.

The act of disclosing, uncovering, or revealing; bringing to light; exposure. He feels it [his secret] beating at his heart, rising to his throat, and demanding disclosure. D. Webster.

To clear from clouds. [Archaic] Fuller.

To divest of a clout. [R.]