[f. prec. + -ISM. So F. Socinianisme.] The doctrines or special views of the Socinians.
1643. F. Cheynell (title), The Rise, Growth, and Danger of Socinianisme.
1645. E. Pagitt, Heresiogr. (ed. 2), 123. For Socinianisme is a compound of many pernicious and antiquitated heresies.
1733. Neal, Hist. Purit., II. 375. The Convocation … had condemned Socinianism in general.
1819. Belsham, Parr’s Wks. (1828), VIII. 155. It differed almost as much from Socinianism as it did from Athanasianism itself.
1865. Pusey, Truth Eng. Ch., 11. The rationalism in Germany, the Socinianism of Geneva.
