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Wordnet 3.0

NOUN (1)

1. someone who demands exact conformity to rules and forms;
[syn: martinet, disciplinarian, moralist]


The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:

Martinet \Mar"ti*net`\, n. [F.] (Zool.) The martin. [1913 Webster]
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]
WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):

martinet n 1: someone who demands exact conformity to rules and forms [syn: martinet, disciplinarian, moralist]
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