discipline vb. (2 this sense was orig. applied to the penitential use of the scourge)
1.
to instruct,
train
Troil. II. iii. 258
“he that d-'d thy arms
to fight,”
Compl. 261
“d-'d, ay, dieted in
grace.”
2.
to chastise, ‘punish’ Cor. II. i.
141.
