Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun One who disciplines.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun One who disciplines.

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  • noun Agent noun of discipline: one who disciplines.

Etymologies

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to discipline + -er

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Examples

  • But respect for the discipliner was lost and negative attitudes developed toward the organization.

    The Bass Handbook of Leadership Bernard M. Bass 2008

  • And yet if you know you're going to have to handle obstreperous congresspersons of your own party, you just might go for a known leader and discipliner of congressional Democrats.

    The Children Are Watching 2008

  • But respect for the discipliner was lost and negative attitudes developed toward the organization.

    The Bass Handbook of Leadership Bernard M. Bass 2008

  • We often talk about the dangers of ideology, but the fact is that one thing idealogy is, is a tremendous intellectual discipliner that prevents you from saying contradictory things all the time.

    Dead Right 1994

  • Harold wanted to talk in lingua deporto as soon as we were alone, but I managed to convince him without even using my monkeysuit's discipliner button that we didn't want them to think we were trying to keep any secrets.

    Flux Tales of Human Futures Card, Orson Scott 1990

  • I agreed, hoping to pacify him, but he didn't calm down until I used the discipliner button in my monkeysuit.

    Flux Tales of Human Futures Card, Orson Scott 1990

  • It is important to note, in the discussion that is to follow, not only how disciplining is transformed as management develops progressively, but also that the intimate acquaintance of discipliner with disciplined is not done away with, but rather supplemented by the standardizing which is the outcome of Scientific

    The Psychology of Management The Function of the Mind in Determining, Teaching and Installing Methods of Least Waste Lillian Moller Gilbreth 1925

  • The perpetual hostility that reigned between discipliner and disciplined bred no ill will on either side.

    The Parish Clerk 1892

  • Je ne suis pas mere, mais je suis tante; j'ai vu naitre mes neveux et nieces, je les ai berces dans mes bras, j'ai veille sur leurs premiers pas, j'ai observe le developpement graduel de leur coeur et de leur intelligence, j'ai senti a fond combien l'oeuvre de l'education est serieuse et combien il importe d'etre discipline soi-meme par le Seigneur pour discipliner les petits confies a nos soins.

    The Life and Letters of Elizabeth Prentiss Prentiss, George L 1882

  • Je ne suis pas mére, mais je suis tante; j'ai vu naître mes neveux et niéces, je les ai bercés dans mes bras, j'ai veillé sur leurs premiers pas, j'ai observé le développement graduel de leur coeur et de leur intelligence, j'ai senti à fond combien l'oeuvre de l'éducation est sérieuse et combien il importe d'étre discipliné soi-même par le Seigneur pour discipliner les petits confiés à nos soins.

    The Life and Letters of Elizabeth Prentiss George L. Prentiss 1859

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