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 […]