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æsopian, a.|iːˈsəʊpɪən|
Also -ean.
[f. late L. æsōpius: see -ian.]
1. = æsopic a. 1.
1875Encycl. Brit. I. 212/1 The Latin writers of æsopean fables. 1889Cent. Dict. s.v., A fable in the æsopian style.
2. = æsopic a. 2.
1950Amer. Speech XXV. 190 Thus on August 17, 1949, for the nth time the problem of the so-called ‘Aesopian’ language of American Communists came up in the course of the trial of the eleven members of the United States Politburo... Government witnesses..gave handy illustrations showing how with the aid of ‘Aesopian’ semantics Communists can and do say one thing but mean another. 1957K. A. Wittfogel Oriental Despotism ix. 400 Originally Lenin used an ‘Aesopian’ (slave) language to speak to those oppressed by the government. 1970M. Scammell Russia's Other Writers 6 Pasternak, hoping for publication, had ‘observed the decencies’ and shrouded his message in suitably Aesopian form, while Sinyavsky and Daniel were less indirect. 1977H. B. Weber Mod. Encycl. Russ. & Soviet Lit. I. 42 Censorship..had a positive, formative impact upon the Aesopian writers' style by obliging them to sharpen their thoughts. |