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Webster 1913 Edition
Simoniacal
Simˊo-ni′a-cal
,Adj.
Of or pertaining to simony; guilty of simony; consisting of simony.
– Sim′o-niˊa-cal-ly
, adv.
The flagitious profligacy of their lives, and the
simoniacal
arts by which they grasped at the popedom. J. S. Harford.
Webster 1828 Edition
Simoniacal
SIMONI'ACAL
,Adj.
1.
Guilty of simony.2.
Consisting in simony, or the crime of buying or selling ecclesiastical preferment; as a simoniacal presentation.