Sentence:  In a commodious gas-lit box, surrounded by books and papers, and with a mighty folio of loose leaves open before him — a book of Fate, in truth — sits a <WSD>Rhadamanthine</WSD> man, buttoned up in a great-coat often; for be it blazing July or frigid December, it is always cold at three o'clock in the morning. 
Meaning of the word marked with <WSD> tags:  Inflexibly rigorous or severe.