Socinian Definition

sō-sĭnē-ən
noun
An adherent of a 16th-century Italian sect holding unitarian views, including denial of the divinity of Jesus.
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adjective
Of or relating to the Socinians or their doctrines.
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Other Word Forms of Socinian

Noun

Singular:
Socinian
Plural:
socinians

Origin of Socinian

  • New Latin Sociniānus after Laelius Socinus Faustus Socinus

    From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition

Socinian Sentence Examples

  • The only religious movement that can be regarded as even rather vaguely the outcome of humanism is the Socinian.

  • At Rakow in Poland was published the catechism of the Socinian doctrines in 1605.

  • A Socinian Bible was issued by Simon Budny in 1570 at Nieswiez, as he professed to find many faults in the version issued under the patronage of Radziwill; in 1597 appeared the Roman Catholic version of the Jesuit Wujek; and in 1632 the so-called Danzig Bible, which is in use among Protestants and is still the most frequently reprinted.

  • Indeed, Price's opinions would seem to have been rather Arian than Socinian.

  • It is worthy of notice that this intercourse with Cromwell occurred when Baxter was summoned to London to assist in settling "the fundamentals of religion," and made the memorable declaration, in answer to the objection that what he had proposed as fundamental "might be subscribed by a Papist or Socinian," - "So much the better, and so much the fitter it is to be the matter of concord."

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Words Starting With

SSOSOC

Words Ending With

NANIAN

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Words Starting With S and Ending With N

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