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Skeptically
- adverb - with scepticism; in a sceptical manner; "he looked at her sceptically"
Skepticisms
- noun - doubt about the truth of something
- the disbelief in any claims of ultimate knowledge
Ski Binding
- noun - one of a pair of mechanical devices that are attached to a ski and that will grip a ski boot; the bindings should release in case of a fall
Skilligalee
- - A kind of thin, weak broth or oatmeal porridge, served out to prisoners and paupers in England; also, a drink made of oatmeal, sugar, and water, sometimes used in the English navy or army.
Skimmington
- - A word employed in the phrase, To ride Skimmington; that is to ride on a horse with a woman, but behind her, facing backward, carrying a distaff, and accompanied by a procession of jeering neighbors making mock music; a cavalcade in ridicule of a henpecked man. The custom was in vogue in parts of England.
Skirmishers
- noun - someone who skirmishes (e.g., as a member of a scouting party)
Skirmishing
- verb - engage in a skirmish
Skywritings
- noun - writing formed in the sky by smoke released from an airplane
Socinianism
- - 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.
Socinianize
- - To cause to conform to Socinianism; to regulate by, or imbue with, the principles of Socinianism.