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Disciplinarian, a. and n.|ˌdɪsɪplɪˈnɛərɪən|
[f. as disciplinary + -an.]
A. adj.
1. Ch. Hist. Of or pertaining to the Disciplinarians (see B. 1); Presbyterian.
1593R. Bancroft Surv. Discipline iii. 56 Those Disciplinarian practises. Ibid. xix. 215 The Papistes..and our disciplinarian men. 1598Conspir. Pretended Ref. 98 Doe not many of the Disciplinarian veine despise and condemne all helpes of good Artes? 1654H. L'Estrange Chas. I (1655) 157 The hole Parliament (whereof some members began now to incline to the Disciplinarian Sect). 1889A. H. Drysdale Hist. Presbyter. Eng. ii. iv. 223 The Disciplinarian or Presbyterian party was extinct.
2. Of or pertaining to discipline; disciplinary.
1640Sir E. Dering Sp. on Relig. 18 Dec. vi. 22 The other three are disciplinarian in the present way of Novellisme. 1678Owen Mind of God viii. 215 The Second sort of means I call Disciplinarian. 1751Johnson Rambler No. 141 ⁋5 My tutor..after a few months began to relax the muscles of disciplinarian moroseness. 1876Mozley Univ. Serm. iv. 89 The self-made trial is a poor disciplinarian weapon.
B. n.
1. Ch. Hist. A name applied to the Puritans of the Elizabethan age, who aimed at establishing the Genevan or Presbyterian ecclesiastical polity or ‘discipline’ in England: see discipline 6 b.
1585–7T. Rogers 39 Art. (1607) 331 The erroneous and evil minds..Of the late schismatics, namely..The Disciplinarians or Puritans among ourselves. 1639Sanderson Serm. II. 33 All sectaries pretend to scripture; papists, anabaptists, disciplinarians. 1673R. Leigh Transp. Reh. 98 Bishop Bramhall speaking of the Scotch Disciplinarians. 1886J. H. Blunt Dict. Sects 125 At one time the Disciplinarians had so much expectation of carrying out their plans as openly to express their conviction that Parker would be the last archbishop of Canterbury.
2. One who enforces discipline (in an army, school, family, etc.).
1639Fuller Holy War iv. xii. (1647) 189 He, being a strict Disciplinarian, would punish their vitious manners. 1705Hearne Collect. 7 Dec., He was like to prove a good Disciplinarian. 1742Fielding J. Andrews iii. v, Because one man scourges twenty or thirty boys more in a morning than another, is he therefore a better disciplinarian? 1835Alison Hist. Europe (1854) IV. xxii. 20 A severe..disciplinarian..he yet secured the affections of..his..men. 1882B. M. Croker Proper Pride I. ii. 18 A strict disciplinarian, and a most excellent teacher.
3. An upholder or advocate of strict discipline.
1746Wesley Princ. Methodist 32 Nor did the strictest Disciplinarian scruple suffering me to exercise those Powers wherever I came. 1859Mill Liberty i. 29 A despotism of society over the individual, surpassing anything contemplated in the political ideal of the most rigid disciplinarian among the ancient philosophers.
Hence discipliˈnarianism, the principles and practice of a disciplinarian.
1872Syd. Mostyn Perplexity II. iii. 56 The house was full of the suggestions of disciplinarianism. |