DISCIPLINED

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does disciplined mean? 

• DISCIPLINED (adjective)
  The adjective DISCIPLINED has 2 senses:

1. obeying the rules

2. trained mentally or physically by instruction or exercise

  Familiarity information: DISCIPLINED used as an adjective is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• DISCIPLINED (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Obeying the rules

Similar:

controlled (restrained or managed or kept within certain bounds)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Trained mentally or physically by instruction or exercise

Context example:

a disciplined mind

Similar:

trained (shaped or conditioned or disciplined by training; often used as a combining form)

 Context examples 

"Oh, but it's mental training. It's mind discipline. It's what makes disciplined minds."

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

Pluto is with Jupiter and will amplify Jupiter’s goodness, and Saturn in this sign will make you frugal, disciplined, and determined to see your goals through to the end.

(AstrologyZone.com, by Susan Miller)

There was little fight left in the peasants, however, still dazed by the explosion, amazed at their own losses and disheartened by the arrival of the disciplined archers.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

And had I truly disciplined my heart to this, and could I resolutely bear it, and calmly hold the place in her home which she had calmly held in mine,—when I found my eyes resting on a countenance that might have arisen out of the fire, in its association with my early remembrances.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

Well then, Jane, call to aid your fancy:—suppose you were no longer a girl well reared and disciplined, but a wild boy indulged from childhood upwards; imagine yourself in a remote foreign land; conceive that you there commit a capital error, no matter of what nature or from what motives, but one whose consequences must follow you through life and taint all your existence.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

In spite of their long years of disciplined education, he was finding himself their intellectual equal, and the hours spent with them in conversation was so much practice for him in the use of the grammar he had studied so hard.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

I had given in allegiance to duty and order; I was quiet; I believed I was content: to the eyes of others, usually even to my own, I appeared a disciplined and subdued character.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

For I knew, now, that my own heart was undisciplined when it first loved Dora; and that if it had been disciplined, it never could have felt, when we were married, what it had felt in its secret experience.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

The sports of the lists had done much in days gone by to impress the minds of the people, but the plumed and unwieldy champion was no longer an object either of fear or of reverence to men whose fathers and brothers had shot into the press at Crecy or Poitiers, and seen the proudest chivalry in the world unable to make head against the weapons of disciplined peasants.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Saturn’s presence at eclipse time reveals you are inclined to have a disciplined approach, and Pluto’s opposition to the moon suggests you might have stringent terms from your lender or venture capitalist.

(AstrologyZone.com, by Susan Miller)