Martinet

4 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Martinet \Mar"ti*net`\, n. [F.] (Zool.)
     The martin.
     [1913 Webster]

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:



  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 WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  martinet
       n : someone who demands exact conformity to rules and forms
           [syn: {disciplinarian}, {moralist}]

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  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