Aesopian

[ ee-soh-pee-uhn, ee-sop-ee- ]

adjective

1. of, relating to, or characteristic of Aesop or his fables:

   a story that points an Aesopian moral.

2. conveying meaning by hint, euphemism, innuendo, or the like:

   In the candidate's Aesopian language, “soft on Communism” was to be interpreted as “Communist sympathizer.”

Word History and Origins

Origin of Aesopian¹

1870–75; < Late Latin Aesōpi ( us ) + -an

Example Sentences

To sum up the characteristics of the Aesopian fable, it is artless, simple and transparent.

From Project Gutenberg

It is the Aesopian type that Aristotle has in view when he treats of the fable as a branch of rhetoric, not of poetry.

From Project Gutenberg

In it the Aesopian fable received a development which was in several respects quite original.

From Project Gutenberg