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ˈdisciplinant
[a. Sp. disciplinantes (pl.), or It. disciplinanti (pl.) ‘a religious order of such as will scourge themselues’ (Florio 1598), sbst. use of pr. pple. of med.L. disciplināre to chastise, correct, beat with rods (Du Cange).]
One who subjects himself to a course of discipline; spec. a member of a religious order in Spain, who publicly scourged themselves by way of discipline.
1620Shelton Quix. iv. xxv. II. 277 Presently he 'spy'd, descending from a certain Height, several Men apparell'd in white, like Disciplinants. 1718Motteux Quix. (1733) II. 297 The Disciplinants lifting up their Hoods and grasping fast their Whips, as the Priests did their Tapers. 1766Smollett Trav. 242 The very disciplinants, who scourge themselves in the Holy-Week, are generally peasants or parties hired for the purpose. 1881A. J. Duffield Don Quix. III. lxxi. 699, I have no mind to catch cold, which is the danger run by all new disciplinants. |