disciplinist

— 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, except in so far as you used identical factors in both; and the inductionist would grant a slight transfer from one form of mathematics to a similar form, regardless of a common element, while denying any appreciable spread to legal reasoning or medical diagnosis.

— 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.

— 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.