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1. WordNet® 3.0 (2006)

disciplinarian
    n 1: someone who demands exact conformity to rules and forms
         [syn: martinet, disciplinarian, moralist]

2. The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48

Disciplinarian \Dis`ci*plin*a"ri*an\, a.
   Pertaining to discipline. "Displinarian system." --Milman.
   [1913 Webster]

3. The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48

Disciplinarian \Dis`ci*plin*a"ri*an\, n.
   1. 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; as, he is a better disciplinarian than scholar.
      [1913 Webster]

   2. A Puritan or Presbyterian; -- because of rigid adherence
      to religious or church discipline. [Obs.]
      [1913 Webster]

Thesaurus Results for Disciplinarian:

1. Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0

Simon Legree, absolute monarch, absolute ruler, all-powerful ruler, arrogator, autarch, autocrat, caesar, commissar, czar, despot, dictator, driver, duce, hard master, martinet, oligarch, oppressor, pharaoh, slave driver, stickler, taskmaster, tyrant, usurper, warlord

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