Martinet \Mar"ti*net`\, n. [F.] (Zool.)
The martin.
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The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
Martinet \Mar"ti*net`\, n. [So called from an officer of that
name in the French army under Louis XIV. Cf. Martin the
bird, Martlet.]
In military language, a strict disciplinarian; in general,
one who lays stress on a rigid adherence to the details of
discipline, or to forms and fixed methods. [Hence, the word
is commonly employed in a depreciatory sense.]
[1913 Webster]
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
martinet
n : someone who demands exact conformity to rules and forms
[syn: disciplinarian, moralist]
WordNet (r) 2.0
24 Moby Thesaurus words for "martinet":
Simon Legree, absolute monarch, absolute ruler, all-powerful ruler,
arrogator, autarch, autocrat, caesar, commissar, czar, despot,
dictator, disciplinarian, driver, duce, hard master, oligarch,
oppressor, pharaoh, slave driver, stickler, tyrant, usurper,
warlord
Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0
disciplinarian, moralist
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