eleutherian

Etymology

From Eleutheria + -n.

adj

  1. Of or relating to the Eleutheria, an ancient Greek festival held at Plataea in honor of Zeus Eleutherius.“Liberty, in these latter days, means something more than was celebrated in the Eleutherian festivals, or exemplified in the political institutions of the States of Greece, and the Commonwealth of Rome.”
  2. Of or relating to Dionysus Eleuthereus, of whose sanctuary the south slope of the Acropolis was originally a part; the said sanctuary included a temple containing his xoanon.“There are no signs of rebuilding, and yet Pausanias saw two temples, one containing the old Eleutherian image.”
  3. Of, from or relating to Eleutherae, an ancient city and fortress between Attica and Boeotia.“If the work cannot compare with the Hellenic masonry of the Messenian or Eleutherian walls, neither does it betray the rude power and massiveness of the Argolic acropoles.”

name

  1. Synonym of Eleutherius, epithet of Zeus/Jupiter.“He enters the ruins of a temple, sacred to Eleutherian Jove, where himself and his train are suddenly alarmed by the voice of one, who complains of the severe fate of Eretria.”
  2. Of or relating to Eleutherius, the official who built the eponymous harbour in Constantinople during the reign Constantine the Great; the neighbourhood of this harbour was later called "Eleutherian", as was the palace built by Empress Irene in this neighbourhood.“She was occupied in negotiating with the ambassador of Charlemagne the conditions of the great alliance between them, whereby the crowns of the East and West were to have been united on one head, when the patrician and chancellor of the empire, Nicephorus, summoned to the emperor, burst into the palace, and at first with friendly words offered to discover all the treasures of the crown, for which ”

noun

  1. A native or inhabitant of Eleutherae, an ancient city and fortress between Attica and Boeotia.“This Valley belonged in very ancient times to the Eleutherians; who being subjećt to those of Thebes, out of an inveterated hatred and emulation revolted from them and join'd themselves to the Athenians, as was pretended out of a great fancy and good affection they took to their way of Government.”
  2. A member of a splinter group of puritans led by Cotton Mather.“True ELEUTHERIANS will consider, how far any further Agreement may be Necessary: And whether those unreasonable Sons of Procrustes, the Narrow-soul'd and Imperious Bigots for Uniforming, will do Religion any real Service, by the pressing of it.”