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A short moral story (often with animal characters)
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apologue
Word definitions for apologue in dictionaries
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Apologue \Ap"o*logue\, n. [L. apologous, Gr. ?; ? from + ? speech, ? to speak: cf. F. apologue.] A story or relation of fictitious events, intended to convey some moral truth; a moral fable. Note: An apologue differs from a parable in this;: the parable ...
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
"moral fable," 1550s, from French apologue , from Latin apologus , from Greek apologos , from apo- "off, away from" (see apo- ) + logos "speech" (see lecture (n.)). Literally, "(that which comes) from a speech."
WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
n. a short moral story (often with animal characters) [syn: fable , parable , allegory ]
Wikipedia
Word definitions in Wikipedia
An apologue or apolog (from the Greek ἀπόλογος, a "statement" or "account") is a brief fable or allegorical story with pointed or exaggerated details, meant to serve as a pleasant vehicle for a moral doctrine or to convey a useful lesson without stating ...
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. 1 a short story with a moral, often involving talking animals or objects; a fable 2 (context rhetoric English) use of fable to persuade the audience
Usage examples of apologue.
The second great mistake made by Poland was in not remembering the apologue of the man and the horse when the question of protection presented itself.
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What follows, then, is a cheerful parable of your being and your becoming, an apologue of that Emptiness which forever issues forth, unfolding and enfolding, evolving and involving, creating worlds and dissolving them, with each and every breath you take.
I will venture, indeed, to enforce my views on this subject by a little apologue which I have somewhere read, or heard,--or invented.
Our worthy acquaintance Mr Malachi Mulligan now appeared in the doorway as the students were finishing their apologue accompanied with a friend whom he had just rencountered, a young gentleman, his name Alec Bannon, who had late come to town, it being his intention to buy a colour or a cornetcy in the fencibles and list for the wars.
The second Lokman, also called the Sage, was a slave and Abyssinian negro, sold by the Israelites during the reign of David or Solomon, and who left a volume of proverbs and exempla, not fables or apologues, some of which still dwell in the public memory.
Indian apologues, or the so-called fables of Bidpay, on the origin of which several dissertations have been written.
It is believed that the fables and apologues are the oldest part of the book.
And let it be remembered, that Aesop at play is one of the instructive apologues of antiquity.
If the sacerdotal laws allowed the reservation of judgments and the allegory of words, I would accept the proposed dignity on condition that I might be a philosopher at home, and abroad a narrator of apologues and parables.
The second Lokman, also called the Sage, was a slave and Abyssinian negro, sold by the Israelites during the reign of David or Solomon, and who left a volume of proverbs and exempla, not fables or apologues, some of which still dwell in the public memory.
The Voltairian apologues slipped through sometimes, owing to the inattention of the censor, and in this way Clerambault was marked out to the authorities as a very dangerous man.
Our worthy acquaintance Mr Malachi Mulligan now appeared in the doorway as the students were finishing their apologue accompanied with a friend whom he had just rencountered, a young gentleman, his name Alec Bannon, who had late come to town, it being his intention to buy a colour or a cornetcy in the fencibles and list for the wars.
The second great mistake made by Poland was in not remembering the apologue of the man and the horse when the question of protection presented itself.
What follows, then, is a cheerful parable of your being and your becoming, an apologue of that Emptiness which forever issues forth, unfolding and enfolding, evolving and involving, creating worlds and dissolving them, with each and every breath you take.