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martinet
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Martinet \Mar"ti*net`\, n. [F.] (Zo["o]l.) The martin.
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.]
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1670s, "system of strict discipline," from the name of Jean Martinet (killed at siege of Duisburg, 1672), lieutenant colonel in the Régiment du Roi, who in 1668 was appointed inspector general of the infantry. "It was his responsibility to introduce and enforce the drill and strict discipline of the French regiment of Guards across the whole infantry." [Olaf van Minwegen, "The Dutch Army and the Military Revolutions 1588-1688," 2006] The meaning "an officer who is a stickler for strict discipline" is first attested 1779 in English. The surname is a diminutive of Latin Martinus (see Martin).
Wiktionary
Etymology 1 n. 1 (lb en military) A strict disciplinarian. 2 (lb en figuratively) Anyone who lays stress on a rigid adherence to the details of discipline, or to forms and fixed methods or rules. Etymology 2
n. A martin; a swift
WordNet
n. someone who demands exact conformity to rules and forms [syn: disciplinarian, moralist]
Wikipedia
The martinet (/ˈmɑːtɪnɪt/) is a punitive device traditionally used in France and other parts of Europe. The word also has other usages, described below.
A martinet is a type of whip. Martinet is also a French name and may refer to:
People- André Martinet, French linguist
- Charles Martinet, American actor
- François-Nicolas Martinet, French ornithologist
- Jean Martinet, French drillmaster
- Jean-Louis Martinet, French composer
- Jeanne Martinet, French semiotician
- Pierre Martinet, French spy
- Le Martinet, a commune in Languedoc-Roussillon, France
- Martinet, Vendée, a commune in the Pays de Loire, France
- Martinet (Dungeons & Dragons), a fictional character
- The Miles Martinet aircraft
- The SNCAC Martinet aircraft
Usage examples of "martinet".
He was clearly a martinet and no enlisted man was going to question his orders.
Less than ten days earlier, a martinet of a Chief Commissioner, who did not approve of inspectors of the old school, had asked him to resign--to retire early, as he more elegantly put it--on the pretext of some rash act the Superintendent was supposed to have committed.
If that martinet of a Chief Commissioner could see Maigret now, he would probably have accused him of doing a job unworthy of a superintendent.
Jeff imagined her arse being taught a lesson by the martinet he kept in his bedroom cupboard.
He smiled, appearing very different from the stiff martinet of seconds ago.
He began to picture the possibilities of his own situation here, where a suspicious martinet was in command.
That petty officers with records as martinets and incompetents are suddenly promoted to quadrant leaders?
My English teacher, a tiny, shriveled martinet, sent terror into my soul for a dangling participle or an incorrectly parsed sentence.
The sergeant played the role of martinet extremely well, abiding no goldbricking from his men.
A company called the Science News Service bought the rights to Interlingua, a language constructed by the International Auxiliary Language Association under the direction of linguists Andre Martinet and Alexander Code.
These irregular troops of horse might be criticised by martinets and pedants, but they contained some of the finest fighting material in the army, some urged on by personal hatred of the Boers and some by mere lust of adventure.
About eleven the infantry began to go forward with an advance which would have astonished the martinets of Aldershot, an irregular fringe of crawlers, wrigglers, writhers, crouchers, all cool and deliberate, giving away no points in this grim game of death.
That petty officers with records as martinets and incompetents are suddenly promoted to quadrant leaders?
The steward trotted through winding aisles of bales and crates, turned a corner, darted up a gangplank to the main-deck of a small steam vessel, so excessively neat and smart with shining brightwork that Lanyard thought it one uncommon tender indeed, and surmised a martinet in command.
Surprised at how difficult it was for him to bid farewell to Sheena, Grant returned to the infirmary where he and Karlstad stood patiently for a final checkup by the little martinet who headed the medical staff.