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The tenets or doctrines of Faustus Socinus, an Italian theologian of the sixteenth century, who denied the Trinity, the deity of Christ, the personality of the Devil, the native and total depravity of man, the vicarious atonement, and the eternity of future punishment. His theory was, that Christ was a man divinely com…

To cause to conform to Socinianism; to regulate by, or imbue with, the principles of Socinianism.

Of or pertaining to sociology, or social science. -- So`ci*o*log"ic*al*ly, adv.

One who treats of, or devotes himself to, the study of sociology. J. S. Mill.

ranch of philosophy which treats of the constitution, phenomena, and development of human society; social science. H. Spencer.

ed by the buskin. Great Fletcher never treads in buskin here, Nor greater Jonson dares in socks appear. Dryden.

That which finishes or ends a matter; a settler; a poser, as a heavy blow, a conclusive answer, and the like. [Slang, U.S.]

ing is fitted; any hollow thing or place which receives and holds something else; as, the sockets of the teeth. His eyeballs in their hollow sockets sink. Dryden.

Having a socket. Dawkins.

Destitute of socks or shoes. B. & Fl.

Wet; soaky. [Prov. Eng.]

A plain block or plinth forming a low pedestal; any base; especially, the base of a statue, column, or the like. See Plinth.

One who holds lands or tenements by socage; a socager. Cowell.

Tenure by socage.

A custom of tenants to grind corn at the lord's mill. Cowell.

Of or pertaining to Socotra, an island in the Indian Ocean, on the east coast of Africa. -- n.

Of or pertaining to Socrates, the Grecian sage and teacher. (b. c. 469-399), or to his manner of teaching and philosophizing.

In the Socratic method.

The philosophy or the method of Socrates.

A disciple or follower of Socrates.