Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun One that enforces or believes in strict discipline.
- adjective Disciplinary.
from The Century Dictionary.
- Pertaining to discipline.
- noun One who disciplines.
- noun A Puritan or Presbyterian: so called from his rigid adherence to religious discipline.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Pertaining to discipline.
- noun One who disciplines; one who excels in training, especially with training, especially with regard to order and obedience; one who enforces rigid discipline; a stickler for the observance of rules and methods of training.
- noun obsolete A Puritan or Presbyterian; -- because of rigid adherence to religious or church discipline.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun One who exercises
discipline . - noun by extension One who believes in discipline as a tool for
regulation orcontrol .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun someone who demands exact conformity to rules and forms
Etymologies
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Examples
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NEW YORK — Stu Jackson, the NBA disciplinarian, is one of five executives promoted by the league.
USATODAY.com - Notes: NBA adopts new ball for upcoming season 2006
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The second sort of means I call disciplinarian, as consisting in the due use and improvement of common arts and sciences, applied unto and made use of in the study of the Scriptures.
Pneumatologia 1616-1683 1967
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His final topic was family and love, not what one would expect from a man who is known as a disciplinarian.
The Seattle Times 2012
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Hendry was known as a disciplinarian as a manager at Creighton yet, with Zambrano, he tolerated more nonsense than necessary.
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Watts, whom students describe as a disciplinarian, said she can't discuss the case.
December 2005 2005
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TUCHMAN (voice-over): So how tough of a disciplinarian was his brother?
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TUCHMAN (voice-over): So, how tough of a disciplinarian was his brother?
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TUCHMAN (voice-over): So, how tough of a disciplinarian was his brother?
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Saavedra Lamas was known as a disciplinarian in his office, a logician at the conference table, a charming host in his home or his art gallery, a man of sartorial elegance who wore, it is said, the highest collars in Buenos Aires.
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The disciplinarian is a specially appointed functional foreman, and has few other duties except those that are directly or indirectly connected with disciplining.
The Psychology of Management The Function of the Mind in Determining, Teaching and Installing Methods of Least Waste Lillian Moller Gilbreth 1925
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