Pro·crus·te·an also pro·crus·te·an (pr -kr s t - n)
adj.
Producing or designed to produce strict conformity by ruthless or arbitrary means.
[After Procrustes, a mythical Greek giant who stretched or shortened captives to make them fit his beds, from Latin Procrust
s, from Greek Prokrousts, from prokrouein, hammer out, to stretch out :pro-, forth; see pro-2 + krouein, to beat.] |
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Dad says he loves his three children equally, and I suspect he learned early that procrustean rules would not work with his three very different--and lovable--children.
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