disciplined
[dis-uh-plind]
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adjective
having or exhibiting discipline; rigorous: paintings characterized by a disciplined technique.
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Origin of disciplined
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Examples from the Web for well-disciplined
Historical Examples of well-disciplined
Curiously enough, seizure of the Gate by force had not occurred to any of this law-abiding, well-disciplined group.
Horace and I, like well-disciplined troops, did not let him precede us by more than an inch.
The Believing YearsEdmund Lester Pearson
He came almost immediately—came with his usual hasty step and with much of his usual expression on his well-disciplined features.
Hand and RingAnna Katharine Green
They are a well-disciplined body, voting as one man, though capable of speaking enough for a thousand.
Handbook of Home Rule (1887)W. E. Gladstone et al.
A numerous and well-disciplined army, perhaps the finest in the world, gave him superiority over the Christians of the north.
A Literary History of the ArabsReynold Nicholson
well-disciplined
adjective (well disciplined when postpositive)
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