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Origin and history of disciplinary

disciplinary(adj.)

"promoting orderly observance of rules," 1590s, from Medieval Latin disciplinarius, from Latin disciplina "instruction given, teaching," also "military discipline" (see discipline (n.)).

also from 1590s

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discipline(n.)

c. 1200, "penitential chastisement; punishment for the sake of correction," from Old French descepline "discipline, physical punishment; teaching; suffering; martyrdom" (11c., Modern French discipline) and directly from Latin disciplina "instruction given, teaching, learning, knowledge," also "object of instruction, knowledge, science, military discipline," from discipulus "pupil, student, follower" (see disciple (n.)).

The Latin word is glossed in Old English by þeodscipe. The meaning "treatment that corrects or punishes" is from the notion of "order necessary for instruction."

The meaning "system of rules and regulations" is from mid-14c. The meaning "branch of instruction or education" is attested by late 14c.

In English, the sense of "military training" is attested from late 15c., via the notion of "training to follow orders and act in accordance with rules;" that of "orderly conduct as a result of training" is from c. 1500. The sense of "system by which the practice of a church is regulated, laws which bind the subjects of a church in their conduct" is from 1570s.

interdisciplinary(adj.)

"pertaining to or involving more than one (academic) discipline," 1937, from inter- + disciplinary.

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