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n. One opposed to the doctrines and practices of socialists or socialism. [ 1913 Webster ]

. Any theory or system that aims to combine the teachings of Christ with the teachings of socialism in their applications to life; Christianized socialism; esp., the principles of this nature advocated by F. D. Maurice, Charles Kingsley, and others in England about 1850. -- Christian socialist. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]

a. [ Pref. dis- + social: cf. L. dissocialis. See Dissociate, v. t. ] Unfriendly to society; contracted; selfish; as, dissocial feelings. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. To render unsocial. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Pertaining to the mutual intercourse or relations of persons in society; social. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ L. socialis, from socius a companion; akin to sequi to follow: cf. F. social. See Sue to follow. ] 1. Of or pertaining to society; relating to men living in society, or to the public as an aggregate body; as, social interest or concerns; social pleasure; social benefits; social happiness; social duties. “Social phenomena.” J. S. Mill. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Ready or disposed to mix in friendly converse; companionable; sociable; as, a social person. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. Consisting in union or mutual intercourse. [ 1913 Webster ]

Best with thyself accompanied, seek'st not
Social communication. Milton. [ 1913 Webster ]

4. (Bot.) Naturally growing in groups or masses; -- said of many individual plants of the same species. [ 1913 Webster ]

5. (Zool.) (a) Living in communities consisting of males, females, and neuters, as do ants and most bees. (b) Forming compound groups or colonies by budding from basal processes or stolons; as, the social ascidians. [ 1913 Webster ]

Social science, the science of all that relates to the social condition, the relations and institutions which are involved in man's existence and his well-being as a member of an organized community; sociology. It concerns itself with questions of the public health, education, labor, punishment of crime, reformation of criminals, and the like. --
Social whale (Zool.), the blackfish. --
The social evil, prostitution. [ 1913 Webster ]

Syn. -- Sociable; companionable; conversible; friendly; familiar; communicative; convival; festive. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Cf. F. socialisme. ] A theory or system of social reform which contemplates a complete reconstruction of society, with a more just and equitable distribution of property and labor. In popular usage, the term is often employed to indicate any lawless, revolutionary social scheme. See Communism, Fourierism, Saint-Simonianism, forms of socialism. [ 1913 Webster ]

[ Socialism ] was first applied in England to Owen's theory of social reconstruction, and in France to those also of St. Simon and Fourier . . . The word, however, is used with a great variety of meaning, . . . even by economists and learned critics. The general tendency is to regard as socialistic any interference undertaken by society on behalf of the poor, . . . radical social reform which disturbs the present system of private property . . . The tendency of the present socialism is more and more to ally itself with the most advanced democracy. Encyc. Brit. [ 1913 Webster ]

We certainly want a true history of socialism, meaning by that a history of every systematic attempt to provide a new social existence for the mass of the workers. F. Harrison. [ 1913 Webster ]

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Socialism of the chair [ G. katheder socialismus ], a term applied about 1872, at first in ridicule, to a group of German political economists who advocated state aid for the betterment of the working classes. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]

n. [ Cf. F. socialiste. ] One who advocates or practices the doctrines of socialism. [ 1913 Webster ]

{ } a. Pertaining to, or of the nature of, socialism. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Cf. F. socialisté, L. socialitas. ] The quality of being social; socialness. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. 1. To render social. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. To subject to, or regulate by, socialism. [ 1913 Webster ]

adv. In a social manner; sociably. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. The quality or state of being social. [ 1913 Webster ]

. A form of socialism, esp. advocated in Germany, which, while retaining the right of private property and the institution of the family and other features of the present form of the state, would intervene by various measures intended to give or maintain equality of opportunity, as compulsory state insurance, old-age pensions, etc., answering closely to socialism of the chair. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]