Definition of Socinian

1. 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.

Generic synonyms: Adherent, Disciple

Definition of Socinian

1. a. Of or pertaining to Socinus, or the Socinians.

2. n. One of the followers of Socinus; a believer in Socinianism.

Definition of Socinian

1. Noun. A member of a particular nontrinitarian Christian denomination founded in the late-16th century. ¹

2. Adjective. Pertaining to the Socinians. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Lexicographical Neighbors of Socinian

Sochisider
Social Democratic Party
Social Development Commission
Social Security Administration
Social Security number
Socialist
Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia
Socialist Labor Party
Socialist Party
Socialist People's Libyan Arab Jamahiriya
Socialist Republic of Vietnam
Society Islander
Society Islands
Society of Friends
Society of Jesus
Socinian (current term)
Socinianize
Socinianized
Socinianizes
Socinianizing
Socinians
Socinus
Socotra
Socotra begonia
Socotran
Socotrans
Socrates
Socratic
Socratic irony
Socratic method

Literary usage of Socinian

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Reformation by George Park Fisher (1873)
"able, and yet it is characteristic of the Socinian tone of thought, ... The prime characteristic of the Socinian theology was the denial of the divinity and ..."

2. The Reformation by George Park Fisher (1906)
"istic of the Socinian tone of thought, that supernaturalism was pushed to an ... The prime characteristic of the Socinian theology was the denial of the ..."

3. The Reformation by Williston Walker (1873)
"able, and yet it is characteristic of the Socinian tone ol thought, ... The prime characteristic of the Socinian theology was the denial of the divinity and ..."

4. The Reformation by George Park Fisher (1906)
"istic of the Socinian tone of thought, that supernaturalism was pushed to an ... The prime characteristic of the Socinian theology was the denial of the ..."

5. Delineation of Roman Catholicism: Drawn from the Authentic and Acknowledged by Charles Elliott (1851)
"The Church of Rome accuses Protestantism of producing Socinian- ism, and that this heresy is the legitimate result of following the Protestant rule. ..."

6. The New Schaff-Herzog Encyclopedia of Religious Knowledge: Embracing by Johann Jakob Herzog, Philip Schaff, Albert Hauck, Samuel Macauley Jackson (1911)
"Toward the end of the sixteenth century Socinian congregations had sprung up ... In 1599 the states-general ordered the burning of the Socinian writings and ..."

7. Dictionary of Sects, Heresies, Ecclesiastical Parties, and Schools of by John Henry Blunt (1874)
"Thus the Socinian societies, after an existence of a hundred years in Poland, ... The Anabaptists fell into the Eutychian heresy rather than the Socinian. ..."

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