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Fabian 音標拼音: [f'ebiən] a. 費邊式的,拖延時間的
n. 費邊主義 費邊式的,拖延時間的費邊主義 Fabian adj 1: of or relating to Fabianism; " the Fabian society" 2: using cautious slow strategy to wear down opposition; avoiding direct confrontation; " a fabian policy" n 1: a member of the Fabian Society in BritainFabian \ Fa" bi* an\, a. 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.]
Fabian \ Fa" bi* an\, n. A member of, or sympathizer with, the Fabian Society. [ Webster 1913 Suppl.]
Fabian \ 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. [ 1913 Webster] { 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. [ 1913 Webster] 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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