[soh-sin-ee-uh
n] 
| 1. | a follower of Faustus and Laelius Socinus who rejected a number of traditional Christian doctrines, as the Trinity, the divinity of Christ, and original sin, and who held that Christ was miraculously begotten and that salvation will be granted to those who adopt Christ's virtues. |
| 2. | of or pertaining to the Socinians or their doctrines. |
| So·cin·i·an (sō-sĭn'ē-ən) n. An adherent of a 16th-century Italian sect holding unitarian views, including denial of the divinity of Jesus. adj. Of or relating to the Socinians or their doctrines. [New Latin Sociniānus, after Laelius Socinus and Faustus Socinus.] So·cin'i·an·ism n. |