Definition of fabyan:
°Pertaining to or reminiscent of Roman general whose tactics against Hannibal during the Second Punic War famously consisted of delaying or avoiding combat, focusing instead on weakening the enemy by cutting off supply lines.
°Advocating that social reforms be reached through a series of gradual and moderate stages rather than sudden
revolution; specifically, relating to the Fabian Society, a British socialist society advocating
reformist socialism.
°borne by an early pope. Rare in English.
Definition of fabyan:
°Pertaining to or reminiscent of Roman general whose tactics against Hannibal during the Second Punic War famously consisted of delaying or avoiding combat, focusing instead on weakening the enemy by cutting off supply lines.
°Advocating that social reforms be reached through a series of gradual and moderate stages rather than sudden
revolution; specifically, relating to the Fabian Society, a British socialist society advocating
reformist socialism.
°borne by an early pope. Rare in English.