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walls, but Socinus, subverted the foundations. The senti¬ 
ments of Socinus, with regard to the principal theological 
subjects controverted among Christians, will appear in the 
following abstract of them from his own writings; some of 
which were published during his own life, and some after 
his death; and the collection of them, in two volumes, fo¬ 
lio, forms part of the “ Bibliotheca Fratrum Polonorum.” 
With regard to the nature and character of Christ, Socinus 
maintained, that he was a man, conceived and formed in the 
womb of the Virgin, without the intervention of a man, by 
the power of the divine spirit. 
Socinus does also expressly deny the distinct personality of 
the Holy Ghost, understanding by the Holy Spirit a divine 
energy or influence. 
Socinus denied the perpetuity of baptism, and thought, 
that, in order to the right administration of baptism, it is 
previously necessary that the baptized person should be a be- 
liever, and he, therefore, reckoned the practice of infant bap¬ 
tism unscriptural and erroneous. 
The chief school of the Socinians was at Racow, where they 
obtained the grant of a settlement, and there all their first 
books were published. But in the year 1638, in consequence 
of the intemperate zeal of some students of the Unitarian 
academy in this city against Popery, a law was enacted at 
Warsaw, by which it was decreed, that the academy of Ra¬ 
cow should be destroyed, its professors banished, the prin¬ 
ting-house of the Socinians destroyed, and their churches 
shut up. 
SOCK, s. [soccus , Latin; j-occ, Saxon; soclce, Teut. 
sockr, Icel. vox plumiris linguis communis, antiquissima et 
Phrygica. See Wachter and Serenius.] Something put 
between the foot and shoe.—Ere I lead this life long, I’ll 
sow nether socks, and mend them, pnd foot them too. 
S/iakspeare. —The shoe of the ancient comic actors, taken 
in poems for comedy, and opposed to buskin or tragedy. 
Then to the well trod stage anon. 
If Jonson’s learned sock be on. 
Or sweetest Shakspeare, Fancy’s child, 
Warble his native wood-notes wild. Milton. 
A ploughshare, or plough-sock. [ soc d'une charrue, Fr. 
the coulter or share of a plough, Cotgravc ; perhaps from 
the Lat. seco, to cut,] A northern word. See Raj/ and 
Grose. 
SOCKACZOW, or Sockaczew, a town of Poland, on 
the river Bsura. Population 3000, Christians and Jews. 
SOCKBRIDGE, a hamlet of England, in Westmoreland, 
situated on the Elmot; 3 miles south-south-west of Penrith. 
SOCKBURN, a village of England, in Durham, situated 
on the Tees; 7 miles south-east of Darlington. 
SO'CKET, s. [ souchette , Fr.] Any hollow' pipe; 
generally the hollow of a candlestick. 
The stars amaz’d ran backward from the sight. 
And, shrunk within their sockets, lost their light. Dry den. 
The receptacle of the eye. 
His eve-bails in their hollow sockets sink ; 
Bereft of sleep he loths his meat and drink ; 
He withers at his heart, and looks as wan 
. As the pale spectre of a murder’d man. Dry den. 
Any hollow that receives something inserted. 
On either side the head produce an ear. 
And sink a socket for the shining share. Dry den. 
SO'CKETCHISEL, s. A stronger sort of chisels.—Car¬ 
penters, for their rougher work, use a stronger sort of chisels, 
and distinguish them by the name of sockctchisels; their 
shank made with a hollow socket a-top, to receive a strong 
wooden sprig made to fit into the socket. Moxon. 
SOCKIA, a small town of Hedsjas, in Arabia; 75 miles 
south of Medina. 
SO'CKLESS, adj. Wanting socks or shoes.—You shall 
behold one pair of legs, the feet of which were in times past 
sockless, but are now, through the change of time that alters 
all things, very strangely become the legs of a knight and 
courtier. Beaum. and FI. 
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SOCKNA, a town in the northern part of Fezzan, in 
Africa, situated on an immense plain of gravel, bounded on 
the south by the Soudeck mountains. It is surrounded by a 
wall with seven gates, only one of which can admit a loaded 
camel. The streets are very narrow, and the houses built of 
mud and small stones intermixed. They have no windows, 
the light being admitted only by the doors. The town is 
surrounded by most extensive plantations of dates, which 
are of excellent quality; but there is no food for camels at 
less than five miles distance. The population is estimated 
by Captain Lyon at 2000. He makes heavy complaints of 
the inhabitants, for their impudence and beggary. 
SO'CLE, s. [With architects.] A flat square member, 
under the bases of pedestals of statues and vases: it serves as 
a foot or stand. Bailey. 
SO'CMAN, or So'ccager, s. [focaj-man. Sax.] A 
sort of tenant that holds lands and tenements by soccage 
tenure, of which there are three kinds. See Socage. 
Cowel. 
SO'CMANRY, s. [from socman ; low Lat. sokcmanria .] 
Free tenure by soccage. Cowel. —It shall be lawful for the 
sokeman of the sokemanry of the said Robert le Fitz Wal¬ 
ter to demand the court of the said Robert. Blount. 
SOCNA, a privilege, liberty, or franchise. The word is 
Saxon. 
SOCO, in Ornithology, the name of a Brazilian bird of 
the heron-kind, the ardea Brasiliensis of Linnaeus, remark¬ 
able, beyond all the rest of that genus, for the length of its 
neck. It is very common in the Brazils; it is smaller than 
the common heron ; its beak is strong, straight, and sharp; 
its tail short; its head and neck brown, and variegated 
with black; and its body is of the same colours in different 
variegations, but its wings have a mixture of whiteness. See 
Ardea. 
SO'COME, s. [In the old law.] A custom of tenants 
to grind corn at their lord’s mill.—There is bond -socome, 
where tenants are bound to grind at the lord’s mill; and 
lo \e-socomc, where they do it freely out of love to their lord. 
Cowel. 
SOCONUSCO, a province of Guatimala, in North Ame¬ 
rica, bounded on the north by Vera Paz, Chiapa, Guaxaca 
and Honduras, on the south by the Pacific, on the east by 
Nicaragua, and on the west by Guaxaca and the Pacific 
Ocean. Guatimala or St. Jago de Guatimala is its capital, 
as well as that of the whole audience. It is subdivided into 
the following districts, from the north to the south, along 
the coast of the Pacific:—Soconusco, Suchitepec, Sansonate, 
St. Salvador, St. Miguel, Tiguesgalpa, and Choluteca or 
Xeres. It is 35 leagues long from north to south, and as 
many more from east to west. The air in this district is 
exceeding hot, and the general state of the climate either 
rainy or sultry : the rains last from April till September, and 
violent storms are very frequent. Soconusco is neither a 
healthy nor a pleasant country, and the soil is not so fertile 
as in some other parts of Guatimala, the corn and maize not 
growing so abundantly; but to compensate this, it produces 
pimento, indigo and cacao in great quantities, and with 
these articles it carries on a great trade with the other North 
American colonies of Spain. The Spaniards are not nu¬ 
merous in Soconusco, it being chiefly inhabited by Indians, 
but the few Spaniards who reside there are very rich. 
SOCONUSCO, the capital of the above province, situ¬ 
ated on a small river which runs into the Pacific Ocean. 
Lat. 18. 30. N. long. 120. 40. W.; 460 miles south-east of 
Mexico. 
SOCORRO, one of the Revillagigedo islands, in the 
North Pacific Ocean, about 200 miles from the west coast of 
Mexico. It is uninhabited and barren, and is about 15 or 
20 miles broad, and as many long. It is the largest of the 
group to which it belongs, and is about 3657 feet above the 
level of the sea. Lat. 18. 48. N. long. 110. 9. W. It was 
visited in 1793 by Captain Collnett. It is also the name 
of several inconsiderable missionary settlements in Spanish 
America. 
SOCORRO, a small town of New Granada, in the pro- 
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