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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Fabian \Fa"bi*an\, noun A member of, or sympathizer with, the Fabian Society. [Webster 1913 Suppl.]
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Fabian \Fa"bi*an\, adjective [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.
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Fabian \Fa"bi*an\, adjective
1. Of or pertaining to the Roman gens Fabia. [Webster 1913 Suppl.]
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. [Webster 1913 Suppl.]
From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:
Fabian
adjective
1: of or relating to Fabianism; "the Fabian society"
2: using cautious slow strategy to wear down opposition; avoiding direct confrontation; "a fabian policy" [syn: {dilatory}]
noun: a member of the Fabian Society in Britain
From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:
36 Moby Thesaurus words for "Fabian": Fabian socialist, Fourierist, Fourieristic, Marxist, Owenite, Saint-Simonian, collectivist, collectivistic, corrective, emendatory, extremist, gradualistic, meliorist, melioristic, phalansterian, progressionist, progressist, progressive, progressivist, radical, reformational, reformative, reformatory, reformer, reformist, reformistic, revisional, revisionist, revisory, revolutionary, socialist, socialistic, state socialist, utopian, utopian socialist, utopist
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