0 someone who believes in keeping complete control of the people he or she is in charge of, especially by giving severe punishments: --
a strict disciplinarian
He is a firm disciplinarian, as we shall discover in a few minutes.
He has to become simply a rigid disciplinarian, and the rigidity of his discipline sometimes interferes with his value as a teacher.
They are just militarists and disciplinarians and nothing more.
But at the end of the day, a weak disciplinarian is not fortified by the cane.
In fact, the non-economic contributions are more important, things like being a good nurturer, a good disciplinarian, a teacher, a moral instructor.
It would be a mistake to think that the prisoner officer today is just a turnkey or disciplinarian.
Would he be a strict disciplinarian or one in whose class it would be quite safe to slack?
They will not go, and we have not now the stern disciplinarians of a past generation.
