- A patron; a protector. - The master of a small coaster in the Mediterranean. - A man who imports, and controls the earnings of, Italian
laborers, street musicians, etc.
- The tenets or doctrines of Faustus Socinus, an Italian
theologian of the sixteenth century, who denied the Trinity, the deity
of Christ, the personality of the Devil, the native and total depravity
of man, the vicarious atonement, and the eternity of future punishment.
His theory was, that Christ was a man divinely commissioned, who had no
existence before he was conceived by the Virgin Mary; that human sin
was the imitation of Adam's sin, and that human salvation was the
imitation and adoption of Christ's virtue; that the Bible was to be
interpreted by human reason; and that its language was metaphorical,
and not to be taken literally.