Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun Severe discipline or training; hard treatment of the body; mortification.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun obsolete Severe discipline.

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  • noun obsolete severe discipline

Etymologies

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Ancient Greek hard + a leading or training.

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