Date: Tue Sep 17 00:52:38 EDT 1996
Subject: A.Word.A.Day--fabian
Fa.bi.an \'fa--be--*n\ \-*-.niz-*m\ aj [the Fabian Society; fr. the
members' belief in slow rather than revoluti]
1a: of, relating to, or in the manner of the Roman general Quintus Fabius Maximus known for his defeat of Hannibal in the Second Punic War by the avoidance of decisive contests
1b: CAUTIOUS, DILATORY on any change in government
2: of, relating to, or being a society of socialists organized in England in 1884 to spread socialist principles gradually - Fabian n