eleutheri

1. (literature) A secret society, usually 19th century and sinister.Examples: "He addressed himself in the same language to the whole company, and […] asked them, if they had any objection to my being initiated into the mysteries of the Eleutheri."; "In his account of the Society of the Eleutheri, Hogg seems to be indulging in a bad dream after having read a book which was always perused with interest by Shelley — Barruel's "Mémoires pour servir a l'histoire du Jacobinisme" — let the reader look into the chapters on Spartacus Weishaupt, the founder of Illuminism, and he will see grounds for this conjecture[.]"pluralplural-only