Aesopian
[ ee-soh-pee-uhn, ee-sop-ee- ]
/ iˈsoʊ pi ən, iˈsɒp i- /
adjective
of, relating to, or characteristic of Aesop or his fables: a story that points an Aesopian moral.
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.”
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Aesop was a Greek slave who supposedly lived 620bc–560bc on the island of Samos and told animal fables that teach a lesson (e.g., “The Tortoise and the Hare”). The term Aesopian entered English much later . . . in the late 17th century.
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Also Ae·sop·ic [ee-sop-ik]. /iˈsɒp ɪk/.
Origin of Aesopian
Words nearby Aesopian
Aeschylus, Aesculapian, Aesculapius, Aesir, Aesop, Aesopian, Aesop's fables, aesthesia, aesthesio-, aesthesiodic, aesthesiogenesis
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Example sentences from the Web for Aesopian
To sum up the characteristics of the Aesopian fable, it is artless, simple and transparent.
In it the Aesopian fable received a development which was in several respects quite original.
It is the Aesopian type that Aristotle has in view when he treats of the fable as a branch of rhetoric, not of poetry.