DISCIPLINARIAN

a. n.

3 definitions — Webster’s Dictionary (1828)


1.
a.

Pertaining to discipline. "Displinarian system." Milman.

2.
n.

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.

3.
n.

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