The Collaborative International Dictionary
Simonist
Simonist \Sim"o*nist\, n. One who practices simony.
Wiktionary
simonist
n. (context Christianity English) One who engages in simony, the purchase of church offices.
Usage examples of "simonist".
Indeed, the Inquisitors have no need to concern themselves with various simonists, or similarly with any others who are judged to be heretics only by legal presumption.
Both in Virginia and in Maryland the infliction of this rabble of simonists as a burden upon the public treasury was a nuisance under which the people grew more and more restive from year to year.