Discipline vs. Martinet — What's the Difference?

Discipline is action or inaction that is regulated to be in accordance (or to achieve accord) with a particular system of governance. Discipline is commonly applied to regulating human and animal behavior to its society or environment it belongs.

The martinet () is a punitive device traditionally used in France and other parts of Europe. The word also has other usages, described below.

Training expected to produce a specific character or pattern of behavior, especially training that produces moral or mental improvement

A rigid military disciplinarian.

Control obtained by enforcing compliance or order

One who demands absolute adherence to forms and rules.

Controlled behavior resulting from disciplinary training; self-control

(military) A strict disciplinarian.

A state of order based on submission to rules and authority

(figuratively) Anyone who lays stress on a rigid adherence to the details of discipline, or to forms and fixed methods or rules.

Punishment intended to correct or train

A martin; a swift.

A set of rules or methods, as those regulating the practice of a church or monastic order.

In military language, a strict disciplinarian; in general, one who lays stress on a rigid adherence to the details of discipline, or to forms and fixed methods.

A branch of knowledge or teaching

The martin.

To train by instruction and practice, as in following rules or developing self-control

Someone who demands exact conformity to rules and forms

To punish in order to gain control or enforce obedience.

To impose order on

A controlled behaviour; self-control.

An enforced compliance or control.

A systematic method of obtaining obedience.

A state of order based on submission to authority.

A set of rules regulating behaviour.

A punishment to train or maintain control.

A specific branch of knowledge or learning.

A category in which a certain art, sport or other activity belongs.

(transitive) To train someone by instruction and practice.

(transitive) To teach someone to obey authority.

(transitive) To punish someone in order to (re)gain control.

(transitive) To impose order on someone.

The treatment suited to a disciple or learner; education; development of the faculties by instruction and exercise; training, whether physical, mental, or moral.

Training to act in accordance with established rules; accustoming to systematic and regular action; drill.

Subjection to rule; submissiveness to order and control; habit of obedience.

Severe training, corrective of faults; instruction by means of misfortune, suffering, punishment, etc.

Correction; chastisement; punishment inflicted by way of correction and training.

The subject matter of instruction; a branch of knowledge.

The enforcement of methods of correction against one guilty of ecclesiastical offenses; reformatory or penal action toward a church member.

Self-inflicted and voluntary corporal punishment, as penance, or otherwise; specifically, a penitential scourge.

A system of essential rules and duties; as, the Romish or Anglican discipline.

To educate; to develop by instruction and exercise; to train.

To accustom to regular and systematic action; to bring under control so as to act systematically; to train to act together under orders; to teach subordination to; to form a habit of obedience in; to drill.

To improve by corrective and penal methods; to chastise; to correct.

To inflict ecclesiastical censures and penalties upon.

A branch of knowledge;

A system of rules of conduct or method of practice;

The trait of being well behaved;

Training to improve strength or self-control

The act of punishing;

Train by instruction and practice; especially to teach self-control;

Punish in order to gain control or enforce obedience;