martinet

from WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006)
martinet
    n 1: someone who demands exact conformity to rules and forms
         [syn: {martinet}, {disciplinarian}, {moralist}]
from The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
Martinet \Mar"ti*net`\, n. [F.] (Zool.)
   The martin.
   [1913 Webster]
from 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]
from Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0
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
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