Producing or designed to produce strict conformity by ruthless or arbitrary means
Marked by arbitrary often ruthless disregard of individual differences or special circumstances
Of or pertaining to Procrustes, or the mode of torture practiced by him; producing conformity by violent means; as, the Procrustean treatment; a Procrustean limit
Imposing stern and inflexible conformity to a preconceived theory or system It originated from the mythical legend of Procrustes who was reputed to tie his victims to an iron bed and then stretch them or cut off their legs to make them fit the bed