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1. Kept under good discipline; strictly trained or controlled.
1595. [Lewkenor], Estate Engl. Fugitives, R iv. Like wel disciplined souldiours that keepe still good and warie watch, though they be neuer so farre from the enemie.
1642. Earl of Cork, in Earl Orrery, St. Lett. (1742), 8. These seasoned and well disciplined companies.
1702. J. Dennis, Ess. Navy, title-p., England’s Advantage and Safety, prov’d Dependant on a Formidable and well-Disciplined Navy.
1768–74. Tucker, Lt. Nat. (1834), II. 339. A well-disciplined imagination.
1849. Macaulay, Hist. Eng., v. I. 528. The power of self-government which is characteristic of men trained in well disciplined camps to command and to obey.
1849. C. Brontë, Shirley, x. At first sight, all but peculiarly well-disciplined minds were apt to turn from her with annoyance.
2. Soundly flogged.
1659–60. Arsy Versy, vi. It did now, like a Truant’s well-disciplined Bum, with the rod of affliction harder become.
