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apologue|ˈæpəlɒg|
Also 6–7 -logy, 7 -loge.
[a. Fr. apologue, ad. L. apologus, a. Gr. ἀπόλογος account, story, fable, f. ἀπό off + λόγος speech.]
An allegorical story intended to convey a useful lesson; a moral fable. (Applied more especially to a story in which the actors or speakers are taken from the brute creation or from inanimate nature.)
1552–5Latimer Serm. & Rem. (1845) 210 To teach the people in apologies, bringing in how one beast talketh with another. 1607Topsell Four-footed Beasts 578 A pretty apology of a league that was made betwixt the wolves and the sheep. 1699Bentley Phal. 496 æsop a poor Slave could make Apologues at Samos. 1837–9Hallam Hist. Lit. (1847) II. 118 Employing the veil of apologue. 1879Farrar Paul I. 633 The apologue of the self-asserting members in 1 Cor. xii. reminds us at once of the ingenious fable of Menenius Agrippa. |