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单词 Orbilian
释义

Orbilian

English

Etymology

After the ancient Latin grammarian Lucius Orbilius Pupillus (114 BC – c. 14 BC), whose pupil, the poet Horace, criticizes him as plāgōsus (fond of flogging).

Adjective

Orbilian (comparative more Orbilian, superlative most Orbilian)

  1. Of or relating to disciplinarianism in teaching.
    • 1903, Herbert Albert Laurens Fisher, Studies in Napoleonic Statemanship Germany (page 278)
      The methods of punishment were drastic and Orbilian; the curriculum and the textbooks two centuries behind the age; the informing spirit ecclesiasticism cut and dried.
    • 1997, David Solway, Lying about the Wolf: Essays in Culture and Education (page 266)
      I am not lobbying for the revival of the Orbilian classroom, but merely suggesting that we have seriously erred []
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