Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Pertaining to Æsop, an ancient Greek writer of fables, of whom little or nothing is certainly known; composed by him or in his manner: as, a fable in the Æsopian style. Also spelled
Esopian .
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Of or pertaining to Æsop, or in his manner.
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- adjective not comparable Related to or concerning the Greek fabulist Aesop
- adjective comparable Characteristic of Aesop's
animal fables - adjective comparable Employing or having an
ambiguous orallegorical meaning, especially apolitical meaning
Etymologies
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Examples
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I presume, in the so-called Aesopian language, or, no matter what we said, we really meant its opposite.
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The second work of our poetess consists of a collection of fables, generally called Aesopian, which she translated into French verse.
The Lay of Marie Matilda Betham 1814
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In a tale with an Aesopian flavor, an ant who politely waits her turn for cake seems at first to lose but wins in the end.
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In a tale with an Aesopian flavor, an ant who politely waits her turn for cake seems at first to lose but wins in the end.
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To back his Aesopian premise he also suggests that Stella Rimington was merely rambling on and apparently she doesn't understand the 'the genuine threat that new forms of terrorism pose' which kind of left me wondering whether the chutzpah of this man has an end.
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Russia had censors and sent many journalists to Siberia, but in America Aesopian writing “for discerning readers” does not have that excuse.
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The well-known joke, which has an almost Aesopian ring to it, about the running shoes and the bear is apposite.
THE GREATEST SHOW ON EARTH RICHARD DAWKINS 2009
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To back his Aesopian premise he also suggests that Stella Rimington was merely rambling on and apparently she doesn't understand the 'the genuine threat that new forms of terrorism pose' which kind of left me wondering whether the chutzpah of this man has an end.
Archive 2009-02-01 2009
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The well-known joke, which has an almost Aesopian ring to it, about the running shoes and the bear is apposite.
THE GREATEST SHOW ON EARTH RICHARD DAWKINS 2009
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Adam Schofield examines the ways Juraj Herz's The Cremator "elicits psychological horror through its disorienting cinematography," how it "reflects trends in Nazi propaganda" and "the much-overlooked indirectly subversive Aesopian messages pertaining to communism that the film directed towards Czechoslovakian audiences of the late 1960s."
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