Sociable

sō′sha-bl, adj. inclined to society: fit for company: companionable: affording opportunities for intercourse.— n. a four-wheeled open carriage with seats facing: a tricycle for two persons side by side: a couch with a curved S-shaped back: ( U.S. ) an informal party, a social church meeting.— ns. Sōciabil′ity , Sō′ciablene , quality of being sociable: good-fellowship.— adv. Sō′ciably .— adj. Sō′cial , pertaining to society or companionship: relating to men united in a society: inclined for friendly intercourse: consisting in mutual converse: convivial: a ociating together, gregarious: growing in patches.— v.t. Sō′cialise , to reduce to a social state: to render social.— ns. Sō′cialism , the name given to any one of various schemes for regenerating society by a more equal distribution of property, and esp. by substituting the principle of a ociation for that of competition; Sō′cialist , an adherent of socialism.— adj. Socialist′ic .— ns. Social′ity , Sō′cialne .— adv. Sō′cially .— adjs. Sō′ciātive , expre ing a ociation; Societā′rian , Socī′etary , of or pertaining to society.— ns. Socī′ety , fellowship, companionship: a number of persons a ociated for a common interest: a community or partnership: the civilised body of mankind, those who are recognised as the leaders in fashionable life, the fashionable world generally: persons who a ociate: any organised a ociation for purposes literary, scientific, philanthropic, or ecclesiastical; Socī′ety-house , a printing office which conforms to the rules of a trade-union; Socī′ety-verse , poetry light and entertaining, treating of the topics of society so called.— Social science , sociology, esp. the branch treating of the existing institutions of men as members of society, the science which treats of social relations; Social War, the war (90-88 b.c.) in which the Italian tribes known as the allies ( Socii ) fought for admi ion into Roman citizenship.— Socialism of the Chair , a term first applied about 1872 in ridicule to the doctrines of a school of political economists in Germany whose aim was mainly to better the condition of the working-cla es through remedial state-legislation, by factory-acts, savings-banks, insurances against sickne and old age, shortening the hours of labour, sanitation, .—also called Profe orial socialism , and having much the same ends and methods as the State socialism of Bismarck.— Christian socialism , a movement for applying Christian ethics to social reform, led by Maurice, Kingsley, and others about 1848-52.— The societies , bodies that began to be organised in 1681 for the maintenance of Presbyterian worship in the face of persecution—ultimately forming the Reformed Presbyterian Church. [Fr.,—L. sociabilis — soc iāre , to a ociate— socius , a companion.]