Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun An adherent of a 16th-century Italian sect holding unitarian views, including denial of the divinity of Jesus.
- adjective Of or relating to the Socinians or their doctrines.
from The Century Dictionary.
- Pertaining to Lælius or Faustus Socinus or their religious creed.
- noun One who holds to Socinian doctrines. See
Socinianism .
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Of or pertaining to
Socinus , or the Socinians. - noun One of the followers of Socinus; a believer in Socinianism.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun A
member of a particularnontrinitarian Christian denomination founded in the late 16th century. - adjective Pertaining to the Socinians.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun an adherent of the teachings of Socinus; a Christian who rejects the divinity of Christ and the Trinity and original sin; influenced the development of Unitarian theology
Etymologies
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Examples
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But his exposition of most of the passages of Scrip - ture relating to the divinity of Christ, is so clearly favour - able to the main principle of the Socinian scheme, that with some latitude the term Socinian is not unfairly applicable. —
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The object of the society was the advocacy not precisely of what were afterwards known as Socinian principles, but of Antitrinitarianism.
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 14: Simony-Tournon 1840-1916 1913
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Chillingworth, of his writings, i.ccxcvii. why called a Socinian, ix.
The Works of Dr. John Tillotson, Late Archbishop of Canterbury. Vol. 10. 1630-1694 1820
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Socinus was not an Anabaptist and rejected baptism all his life, so he never joined the church that later was known as "Socinian".
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I have to admit that you don't run into many UUs who know what "Socinian" means today.
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Christian, rather than in the 'Socinian', or 'Pharisaic' view, all these objections vanish, and harmony succeeds to inexplicable confusion.
The Life of Samuel Taylor Coleridge 1838 James Gillman
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In reply, I beg to remark that by "Socinian" is, I suppose, meant
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Of course, it is from his name that the term 'Socinian' is derived, a term that has often been applied, but mistakenly, to
Unitarianism W.G. Tarrant 1890
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Of course, Locke was called a 'Socinian'; but the effect of his work remained, and we should remark that if it looked on the one hand toward the orthodox, on the other it looked toward the sceptics and freethinkers who began at that time a long and not ineffectual criticism of the miraculous claims of Christianity.
Unitarianism W.G. Tarrant 1890
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Societies, -- such as Socinian and Popish, that hold not the truth, ought not to be reckoned as a part of the Church of God.
The Ordinance of Covenanting John Cunningham 1856
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