Definition, Meaning & Synonyms | English word AESOPIAN
AESOPIAN
Definitions of AESOPIAN
- (not comparable) Related to or concerning the Greek fabulist Aesop.
- (comparable) Characteristic of Aesop's animal fables.
- (comparable) Employing or having an ambiguous or allegorical meaning, especially a political meaning.
Number of letters
8
Is palindrome
No
Examples of Using AESOPIAN in a Sentence
- To avoid surveillance, the station's inhabitants adopt an Aesopian language which is full of metaphors that are impossible for computers to grasp.
- In a careful examination of these prose Aesopian fables, which had been handed down in various collections from the time of Maximus Planudes, Bentley discovered traces of versification, and was able to extract a number of verses which he assigned to Babrius.
- Further, it considers the role of the law-givers like Manu in establishing the supremacy of the idealist traditions, and how due to the censor and censure anti-idealists like Varahamihira and Brahmagupta worked out their philosophies in distinctive Aesopian language, developing their own modes of camouflaging their ideas.
- His books blend The Jatakas Tales, The Panchatantra and the likely (fourth century BCE) role of Alexander the Great's legacy in "bringing the Aesopian tradition to North India and Central Asia" via Hellenization in Central Asia and India.
- The Green Bag has published "Beatitudes and Jeremiads" as well as several chapters of Hornby's "Fables in Law: Legal Lessons from Field, Forest, and Glen," Aesopian legal fables for lawyers, judges, and law professors.
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