Aesopic
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.”.
historical examples
a fable is again introduced which is of a pr-nounced aesopic cast.
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it comes nearest to the aesopic fable and its eastern origins or parallels.
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adj.
1927, in reference to soviet literary censorship: “obscure or ambiguous writing, often allegorical, which disguises dissent,” from aesop + -ic. the term (russian ezopovskii, 1875) arose under the tsars and the style was used by russian communists. once they took power the word was applied by them as a charge against their own dissidents.
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