A good disciplinarian who is able to get the best from those placed under his charge.
Although Bishop Wright was a firm disciplinarian, both parents were loving and the family was a close one.
As bishop he was a strict disciplinarian, and did much to restore order in a diocese of which the clergy had become extraordinarily demoralized.
At any given time during a child's life, a parent might be a caregiver, playmate, teacher, nurse, disciplinarian, role model, confidante, companion, and more.
Between 842 and 846 he was chosen abbot, but as a disciplinarian he was more energetic than successful, and about 851 he resigned the office.
Disciplinarian. I don't let them run amok and follow their feelings.
He also found encouragement in Mucianus, the governor of Syria; and although a strict disciplinarian and reformer of abuses, he had a soldiery thoroughly devoted to him.
He was a brutal disciplinarian with no more mercy for his demons than he showed humans who lost deals.
He was a disciplinarian, a scholar, a modest and moderate man of genuine piety and irreproachable morals.
He was a founder of monasteries and a builder of churches, advocated clerical celibacy and was a strict disciplinarian.
He was a great soldier and a rigid but just disciplinarian.
He was a real disciplinarian, who valued the meaning of family life.
He was educated, exclusively by his father, who was a strict disciplinarian, and at the age of three was taught the Greek alphabet and long lists, of Greek words with their English equivalents.
He was merciful as a conqueror, stern as a disciplinarian, enterprising and wary as a general; while his courage, loyalty and forbearance seem to have been almost unsullied.
He was quick, energetic and resourceful, reckless of his own safety, a strict disciplinarian, a painstaking and hard-working officer.
Horace (Epistles, ii.) criticizes his old schoolmaster and describes him as plagosus (a flogger), and Orbilius has become proverbial as a disciplinarian pedagogue.
Hotham had a reputation as a tough disciplinarian and the crew refused to accept him.
I found Mrs Stimson to be a firm disciplinarian but also compassionate when necessary.
If your father was a stern disciplinarian, the odds are that you'll think of God in that way.
In military matters Hadrian was a strict disciplinarian, but his generosity and readiness to share their hardships endeared him to the soldiers.
The headmaster, Bowyer (as he was called, though his name was Boyer), was a severe disciplinarian, but respected by his pupils.
The schools showed him an able and wise disciplinarian, and his patriotic orations and sermons prove him a speaker of great power.
Vernon Winfrey was a strict and rigid disciplinarian, but it was exactly the tough love that Oprah needed.