The Collaborative International Dictionary
Simoniacal \Sim`o*ni"a*cal\, a. Of or pertaining to simony; guilty of simony; consisting of simony. -- Sim"o*ni`a*cal*ly, adv.
The flagitious profligacy of their lives, and the
simoniacal arts by which they grasped at the popedom.
--J. S.
Harford.
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a. simoniac
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Usage examples of "simoniacal".
This the Pope refused, having heard, it is said, of his Simoniacal practices.
When he refused to obey their summons, they deposed him, declaring him to be disobedient, obstinate, rebellious, a breaker of rules, a perturber of ecclesiastical unity, a perjurer, a schismatic, a hardened heretic, a squanderer of the treasures of the Church, scandalous, simoniacal, pernicious and damnable.