单词 | apologue |
释义 | apologuen. 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.) ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > literature > prose > narrative or story > parable, allegory, or apologue > [noun] byspelc950 by-talea1300 forbyseninga1300 fable1340 parablec1384 similitudea1425 examplec1425 allegoryc1450 problema1500 apologuea1555 byworda1557 mythology1603 Aesopism1845 exemplum1883 a1555 H. Latimer Frutefull Serm. (1572) ii. f. 216 To teach the people in Apologies, bringing in how one beast talketh with an other. 1607 E. Topsell Hist. Foure-footed Beastes 746 A pretty Apologie of a league that was made betwixt the Wolues and the sheepe. 1699 R. Bentley Diss. Epist. Phalaris (new ed.) 496 Æsop a poor Slave could make Apologues at Samos. 1839 H. Hallam Introd. Lit. Europe II. v. 301 Employing the veil of apologue. 1879 F. W. Farrar Life & Work St. Paul I. App. iii. 633 The apologue of the self-asserting members in 1 Cor. xii., which reminds us at once of the ingenious fable of Menenius Agrippa. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1885; most recently modified version published online December 2021). < n.a1555 |
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