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Eleusinian
[ el-yoo-sin-ee-uhn ]
adjective
- of or relating to Eleusis or to the Eleusinian mysteries.
noun
- a native or inhabitant of Eleusis.
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Word History and Origins
Origin of Eleusinian1
1635–45; < Latin Eleusini ( us ) < Greek Eleusínios of Eleusis + -an
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Example Sentences
The pig was the animal usually offered to Demeter, the goddess of the Eleusinian mysteries.
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In the Eleusinian mysteries the rape of Persephone by Pluto, the winter god, is portrayed.
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In memory of her sorrows Demeter establishes the Eleusinian mysteries (which, however, were purely agrarian in origin).
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He has been blamed for thus exposing the Eleusinian mysteries of literature to the uninitiated.
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The Orphic, chiefly deserving mention as the probable foundation of the Eleusinian.
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