Aesopically

adv

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Definitions

Adverb
  1. 1
    In an Aesopic manner.

    "Although we can be sure that he 'Aesopically' related its theme to the Russia of his own day, he saw the play in overwhelmingly historical terms - as a study in the generation gap of the late 1870s 's glubokim istoricheskim podtekstom'."

Example

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"Although we can be sure that he 'Aesopically' related its theme to the Russia of his own day, he saw the play in overwhelmingly historical terms - as a study in the generation gap of the late 1870s 's glubokim istoricheskim podtekstom'."

Etymology

From Aesopic + -ally.

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