society journals (or newspapers)

pl. Journals whose chief object is to chronicle the sayings and doings of fashionable society. society-verses, subst. pl. (A translation of the French vers de soc iété .) Verses for the amusement of polite society; poetry of a light, entertaining, polished character. *so-çi-ě-ty-le , a . [Eng. society; -le .] Without society or companions. "Society le and bookle ."- Madam D'Arblay: Diary iv. 272. Sō-çin-i-an, a . & s. [See def.] A. As adj .: Of or belonging to the two most celebrated Socini, their tenets, or those of the Socinians in general. B. As subst.: One who accepts the teaching of the Socini; a believer in the doctrines of Soc in i an ism (q. v.). So-çin-lan-işm, s. [Eng. Socinian ;-ism.] Church Hist.: A form of Unitarianism which is identified with Lælius and Faustus Socinus. The former, born in 1525, early adopted anti-Trinitarian views, and diligently propagated them among his friends, but making no public avowal of them, he escaped persecution, and died a natural death at Zurich, in 1562. His papers came into the hands of his nephew, Faustus (1539-1604), who in the main adopted his convictions, and zealously promulgated them, both in Transylvania Poland. He denied the existence of Jesus Christ previous to his birth of the Virgin Mary, and to this extent was opposed to Arianism (q. v.) as well as to Trinitarian ism (q. v.). He, however, accepted the doctrine of the Miraculous Conception, and allowed to the teachings of Christ peculiar authority, on the ground that during his life he was translated to heaven, where revelations were made to him. He also taught that after Christ's final ascension, power was delegated to him to a ist men in working out their salvation, and that he was invested with attributes by which he was virtually deified, so that he may be spoken of as God, and is entitled to our worship and obedience. Soc in i an ism is sometimes used loosely as synonymous with Unitarianism (q. v.), but it differs in important particulars, not only from Arianism, but from the more modern and rationalistic phase of Unitarianism which represents Christ as simply a man in whose birth and life there was no element of the super herent together."- dall: John x. B. As subst.: An a ociate. *sō-ci-āte (cas sh), v. i. [SOCIATE, a.] To a ociate. ( Shelford : Learned Discourses , p. 58.) so-çi-e-tär-i-an, a. [Eng. societ(y); -arian.] Of or pertaining to society; societary. "The all-sweeping besom of societarian reformation." -Lamb : E ays of Elia ; Decay of Beggars. *so-çi-ě-tar-ỹ, a. [Eng. societ (y); -ary.] Of or pertaining to society.