a. rare. [f. Gr. έλευθέρι-ος of same meaning (f. έλεύθερ-ος free) + -AN.] The title of Zeus as protector of political freedom.
1623. Cockeram, Eleutherian, a deliverer.
1801. Southey, Thalaba, I. xii. Where the family of Greece Hymn’d Eleutherian Jove.
