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Fabian
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What's The Definition Of Fabian?
[n] a member of the Fabian Society in Britain
[adj] using cautious slow strategy to wear down opposition; avoiding direct confrontation; "a fabian policy" [adj] of or relating to Fabianism; "the Fabian society" Synonyms | Synonyms for Fabian: cautious | dilatory Related Terms | Find terms related to Fabian: collectivist | collectivistic | corrective | emendatory | extremist | Fabian socialist | Fourierist | Fourieristic | gradualistic | Marxist | meliorist | melioristic | Owenite | phalansterian | progressionist | progressist | progressive | progressivist | radical | reformational | reformative | reformatory | reformer | reformist | reformistic | revisional | revisionist | revisory | revolutionary | Saint-Simonian | socialist | socialistic | state socialist | utopian | utopian socialist | utopist See Also | Fabian Society | socialist Fabian In Webster's Dictionary \Fa"bi*an\, a. [L. Fabianus, Fabius, belonging to
Fabius.]
Of, pertaining to, or in the manner of, the Roman general,
Quintus Fabius Maximus Verrucosus; cautious; dilatory;
avoiding a decisive contest.
{Fabian policy}, a policy like that of Fabius Maximus, who,
by carefully avoiding decisive contests, foiled Hannibal,
harassing his army by marches, countermarches, and
ambuscades; a policy of delays and cautions.
\Fa"bi*an\, n. A member of, or sympathizer with, the Fabian Society. \Fa"bi*an\, a. 1. Of or pertaining to the Roman gens Fabia. 2. Designating, or pertaining to, a society of socialists, organized in England in 1884 to spread socialistic principles gradually without violent agitation. The Fabian Society proposes then to conquer by delay; to carry its programme, not by a hasty rush, but through the slower, but, as it thinks, surer methods of patient discussion, exposition, and political action. --William Clarke. |
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