- Aesopic (adj.)
- 1927, in the context of Soviet literary censorship, in reference to writing "obscure or ambiguous, often allegorical, which disguises dissent," from Aesop, the traditional father of the allegorical fable, + -ic. The term (Russian ezopovskii, 1875) arose under the Tsars. The style was used by Russian communists, who, once they took power, used the word in charges against their own dissidents.
