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Fabian
fabian
n. & adj. --n. a member or supporter of the Fabian Society, an organization of socialists aiming at a gradual rather than revolutionary achievement of socialism. --adj. 1 relating to or characteristic of the Fabians. 2 employing a cautiously persistent and dilatory strategy to wear out an enemy (Fabian tactics). Derivatives Fabianism n. Fabianist n. Etymology: L Fabianus f. the name of Q. Fabius Maximus Cunctator (= delayer), Roman general of the 3rd c. BC, noted for cautious strategies
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adjective Date: 1638 1. of, relating to, or in the manner of the Roman general Quintus Fabius Maximus known for his defeat of Hannibal in the Second Punic War by the avoidance of decisive contests, cautious, dilatory, of, relating to, or being a society of socialists organized in England in 1884 to spread socialist principles gradually, ~ noun ~ism noun ...Толковый словарь английского языка
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