Fabian

a.	1.	Of, pertaining to, or in the manner of, the Roman general, Quintus Fabius Maximus Verrucosus; cautious; dilatory; avoiding a decisive contest. 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.
	1.	Of or pertaining to the Roman gens Fabia.
	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.
n.	1.	A member of, or sympathizer with, the Fabian Society.

Noun	1.	Fabian - a member of the Fabian Society in Britain
Adj.	1.	Fabian - of or relating to Fabianism; "the Fabian society"
	2.	fabian - using cautious slow strategy to wear down opposition; avoiding direct confrontation; "a fabian policy" Synonyms: dilatory

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