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æsopic, a.|iːˈsɒpɪk|
Also (now U.S.) Esopic.
[ad. late L. æsōpicus, f. æsōpus ad. Gr. αἴσωπος.]
1. Of, pertaining to, or characteristic of æsop, a semi-legendary Greek fabulist of the sixth century b.c. Hence æsopism |ˈiːsəpɪz(ə)m|, an æsopic characteristic.
1728Chambers Cycl. s.v. Fable, Esopic Fables. 1831Carlyle in Foreign Q. Rev. VIII. 381 The old prevalence of the Didactic, especially of the æsopic, is every where manifest. 1869H. F. Tozer Highl. Turkey II. 266 The æsopic and similar fables of later date. 1905J. M. Robertson Did Shakes. write Titus Andron.? 146 The æsopism about the crow figuring at court.
2. spec. In relation to Russian and (Soviet) Communist literature [Russ. ezopovskiĭ, first so used by M.E. Saltȳkov-Shchedrin, Unfinished Conversations (1875) iv.; cf. Lenin Party Organization & Party Lit. in Novaya Zhizn′ (1905) 13 Nov.]: using a style or language that has hidden or ambiguous meaning, esp. as a device to disguise dissident political writing in allegorical form and so avoid official censorship. Cf. æsopian a. 2.
1927D. S. Mirsky Hist. Russ. Lit. I. 360 They are written in a language which Saltykov himself called Aesopic. It is one continuous circumlocution in view of the censorship and demands a constant running commentary. 1957W. E. Harkins Dict. Russ. Lit. 2 The great master of Aesopic language in Russian literature is Saltykov. 1977R. Hingley Russ. Writers & Society in Nineteenth Cent. iv. xvii. 165 Despite all obstacles writers still found means of communicating. One technique was indirect allusion in ‘Aesopic’ language. |