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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.

The ordeal tree. See under Ordeal.

Any species of Thalaassinidæ, a family of burrowing macrurous Crustacea, having a long and soft abdomen.

Trichinosis.

Of or pertaining to a triclinium, or to the ancient mode of reclining at table.

Cowpox; vaccina. See Cowpox.

One of a school of Judaizing Gnostics in the second century; -- so called from Valentinus, the founder.

Of or pertaining to a virago; having the qualities of a virago. Milton.

Of or pertaining to the State of Virginia. Virginia cowslip (Bot.), the American lungwort (Mertensia Virginica). -- Virginia creeper (Bot.), a common ornamental North American woody vine (Ampelopsis quinquefolia), climbing extensively by means of tendrils; -- called also woodbine, and American ivy. [U.S.] -- Virginia…

A volatile oil distilled from the resin or balsam of the nut pine (Pinus sabiniana) of California.

The Patriarch, or head of the Abyssinian Church.

eof they now accuse me. Acts xxiv. 13. We are accused of having persuaded Austria and Sardinia to lay down their arms. Macaulay.

Having the form of rays; radiated, as an actinia.

A group of Coelenterata, comprising the Anthozoa Ctenophora. The sea anemone, or actinia, is a familiar example.

and the part of the United States east of the Mississippi and north of Tennessee and Virginia, with the exception of the territory occupied by the northern Iroquoian tribes. There are nearly 100,000 Indians of the Algonquian tribes, of which the strongest are the Ojibwas (Chippewas), Ottawas, Crees, Algonquins, Micmac…

o the United States. "A young officer of the American navy." Lyell. American ivy. See Virginia creeper. -- American Party (U. S. Politics), a party, about 1854, which opposed the influence of foreign-born citizens, and those supposed to owe allegiance to a foreign power. -- Native american Party (U. S. Politics), a p…

Of or pertaining to Amhara, a division of Abyssinia; as, the Amharic language is closely allied to the Ethiopic. -- n.

A genus formerly including the Virginia creeper.

Anathematization. [Obs.] We find a law of Justinian forbidding anathematisms to be pronounced against the Jewish Hellenists. J. Taylor.