disciplinists

Noun

disciplinist (plural disciplinists)

1. (historical) A proponent of disciplinism.
   • Or, to put the three views concretely, the formal disciplinist would say that training the reasoning power by mathematics would make one a better lawyer or medical diagnostician; the non-transferrist would say that training in geometry helped geometry but had nothing to do with, say, trigonometry...1918, California Teachers Association, CTA Journal - Volume 14, page 392
2. A disciplinarian; one who stresses obedience to authority.
   • La Trappe, a Frenchman, was a gloomy disciplinist and recluse, and a founder of a set of devotees, who are obliged to live in the practice of the utmost austerities, and without ever speaking to each other.1830, William Pinnock, Iconology; or, Emblematic figures explained, page 379
3. One whose job is to enforce discipline.
   • The prison disciplinist, Jno. Clay, of Preston, claims to be descended from the third sone of Richard Clay, of the Hill, who had five sons and three daughters.1870, The Reliquary - Volume 10, page 146