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Orbilian

Orbilian adjective: of or relating to disciplinarianism in teaching.

Adjective

Orbilian (comparative more Orbilian, superlative most Orbilian)

  1. Of or relating to disciplinarianism in teaching.
    • The methods of punishment were drastic and Orbilian; the curriculum and the textbooks two centuries behind the age; the informing spirit ecclesiasticism cut and dried.1903, Herbert Albert Laurens Fisher, Studies in Napoleonic Statemanship Germany, page 278
    • I am not lobbying for the revival of the Orbilian classroom, but merely suggesting that we have seriously erred […]1997, David Solway, Lying about the Wolf: Essays in Culture and Education, page 266

Forms of Orbilian

comparativemore Orbilian
superlativemost Orbilian

Origin of Orbilian

After the nomen (middle name) of the ancient Latin grammarian Lucius Orbilius Pupillus (114 BC – c. 14 BC), whom the poet Horace (65 BC – 8 BC), his pupil, criticized as plāgōsus (fond of flogging).

Questions about Orbilian

What does Orbilian mean?
Orbilian means of or relating to disciplinarianism in teaching.
What part of speech is Orbilian?
Orbilian is an adjective.

Words near Orbilian in the dictionary

  1. orbifolds
  2. orbiform
  3. orbiforms
  4. orbifrontal
  5. orbiliaceous
  6. Orbilian
  7. Orbilius
  8. Orbiliuses
  9. orbilla
  10. orbillae
  11. orbing

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