"Aesoplike" meaning in English

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Adjective

Forms: more Aesoplike [comparative], most Aesoplike [superlative]
Head templates: {{en-adj}} Aesoplike (comparative more Aesoplike, superlative most Aesoplike)
  1. Alternative form of Aesop-like Tags: alt-of, alternative Alternative form of: Aesop-like
    Sense id: en-Aesoplike-en-adj-SIa5W~U- Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, Pages with 1 entry, Pages with entries
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          "ref": "1957, Edwin A. Burtt, Man Seeks the Divine: A Study in the History and Comparison of Religions, Harper & Brothers, page 198:",
          "text": "He [Zhuang Zhou] loved to pillory the Confucian thinkers for their proud claims to wisdom and superior rectitude; he teased them with amusing stories about Confucius which are on a par with Aesoplike tales about the “Spirit of the River” and “General Clouds”—the point of many of the stories being that Confucius was really a Taoist in disguise.",
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          "ref": "1967, The Booklist and Subscription Books Bulletin, page 924:",
          "text": "Berechiah ben Natronai, ha-Nakdan, 12th cent. Fables of a Jewish Aesop, tr. from the Fox fables of [the author] by Moses Hadas. Illus. with woodcuts by Fritz Kredel. 1967. 233p. illus. Columbia, $5.95. / Predominantly Aesoplike and Aesop-derived fables written by a rabbi of medieval France.",
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          "ref": "1995, “Purposes of Oral Literature”, in Rodney Frey, editor, Stories That Make the World: Oral Literature of the Indian Peoples of the Inland Northwest; As Told by Lawrence Aripa, Tom Yellowtail, and Other Elders (The Civilization of the American Indian), Norman, Okla.: University of Oklahoma Press, →ISBN, pages 174–175:",
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