noun
definition
One who exercises discipline.
example
He is the chief disciplinarian in the school.
definition
(by extension) One who believes in discipline as a tool for regulation or control.
adjective
definition
Relating to discipline.
Examples of disciplinarian in a Sentence
In military matters Hadrian was a strict disciplinarian, but his generosity and readiness to share their hardships endeared him to the soldiers.
The schools showed him an able and wise disciplinarian, and his patriotic orations and sermons prove him a speaker of great power.
He was quick, energetic and resourceful, reckless of his own safety, a strict disciplinarian, a painstaking and hard-working officer.
He was a real disciplinarian, who valued the meaning of family life.
A good disciplinarian who is able to get the best from those placed under his charge.
He also found encouragement in Mucianus, the governor of Syria; and although a strict disciplinarian and reformer of abuses, he had a soldiery thoroughly devoted to him.
He was a great soldier and a rigid but just disciplinarian.
He was a disciplinarian, a scholar, a modest and moderate man of genuine piety and irreproachable morals.
He was a founder of monasteries and a builder of churches, advocated clerical celibacy and was a strict disciplinarian.
Disciplinarian. I don't let them run amok and follow their feelings.
He was a brutal disciplinarian with no more mercy for his demons than he showed humans who lost deals.
I found Mrs Stimson to be a firm disciplinarian but also compassionate when necessary.
If your father was a stern disciplinarian, the odds are that you'll think of God in that way.
Hotham had a reputation as a tough disciplinarian and the crew refused to accept him.
The headmaster, Bowyer (as he was called, though his name was Boyer), was a severe disciplinarian, but respected by his pupils.
Vernon Winfrey was a strict and rigid disciplinarian, but it was exactly the tough love that Oprah needed.
At any given time during a child's life, a parent might be a caregiver, playmate, teacher, nurse, disciplinarian, role model, confidante, companion, and more.
He was merciful as a conqueror, stern as a disciplinarian, enterprising and wary as a general; while his courage, loyalty and forbearance seem to have been almost unsullied.
He was educated, exclusively by his father, who was a strict disciplinarian, and at the age of three was taught the Greek alphabet and long lists, of Greek words with their English equivalents.
Between 842 and 846 he was chosen abbot, but as a disciplinarian he was more energetic than successful, and about 851 he resigned the office.
Horace (Epistles, ii.) criticizes his old schoolmaster and describes him as plagosus (a flogger), and Orbilius has become proverbial as a disciplinarian pedagogue.
As bishop he was a strict disciplinarian, and did much to restore order in a diocese of which the clergy had become extraordinarily demoralized.
Although Bishop Wright was a firm disciplinarian, both parents were loving and the family was a close one.