Eleutheric Grice

There are some entries in the OED in which 'eleuthero' is the root.


1. †

"elet"

n. View full entry c1200

...Fuel....

2.

"eleusine"

n. View full entry 1836

...

"a member of the genus of annual tropical grasses so named, some of which are grown for grain in Africa and Asia; also called ragi, finger millet, or birdsfoot millet....

3.

"eleusinian"

n. View full entry 1644

...Belonging to Eleusis in Attica. Eleusinian mysteries...

4.

"eleutherarch"

n. View full entry 1813

...

The chief of an (imaginary) secret society called ‘the Eleutheri’....

5.

"eleutherian"

adj.

View full entry 1623

...

The title of Zeus as protector of POLITICAL freedom....

6.

"eleutherism"

n. View full entry 1802
...Zeal for freedom....

7.

"eleuthero-"


, comb. form View full entry 1837

...combining form of Greek

ἐλεύθερος

free:

eleutheromania see
mania -- eleutheromaniac see maniac

Also in botanical compounds, as

eleutheropetalous

Greek
πέταλον
leaf,

eleutheroˈphyllous

Greek
ϕύλλον leaf,...

8. †

elevable, adj. View full entry 1676

...That can be elevated....

9.

elevate, adj. View full entry c1400

...Used as pa. pple. of elevate; also = elevated; in various senses. From 18th c. only poet....

10.

elevate, v. View full entry 1497
...trans. To lighten, lessen the weight of; to depreciate, extenuate. Obs....

"eleuthero-", comb. form

combining form of Greek "ἐλεύθερος"

free:

eleutheromania n. [see mania n.]
mad zeal for freedom.

eleutheromaniac adj.

[see maniac adj. and n.] one possessed by a mad zeal for freedom.

Also in botanical compounds, as

eleutheropetalous

adj. [Greek πέταλον leaf] , eˌleutheroˈphyllous adj. [Greek ϕύλλον leaf] ,

eleutherosepalous adj. [see sepal n.] having the petals, leaves, sepals, free, i.e. distinct, not cohering.

1837 T. Carlyle French Revol. I. iii. iv. 116

"Nothing but insubordination, eleutheromania, confused unlimited opposition, in their heads."

1837 T. Carlyle French Revol. I. ii. v. 63

"Eleutheromaniac Philosophedom grows ever more clamorous."

1880 A. Gray Struct. Bot. vi. §5. 245 Eleutheropetalous‥has‥been used for polypetalous.