simoniacal
- a word derived from simoniac.
Example Sentences
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But I ought to have told you, that Mr. Williams, upon mature deliberation, declined the stipulated eighty pounds per annum from Mr. Adams, as he thought it would have a simoniacal appearance.
From Pamela, Volume II by Richardson, Samuel
The selling of pardons was simply a lower kind of simoniacal bartering which pervaded the whole hierarchical establishment.
From Luther and the Reformation: The Life-Springs of Our Liberties by Seiss, Joseph A.
Their complaints induced Henry III, King of Germany, to hurry to Italy, and to summon a council at Sutri, during the Christmas festival, to inquire whether the election of Gregory should be regarded as simoniacal.
From The Great Events by Famous Historians, Volume 05 (From Charlemagne to Frederick Barbarossa) by Horne, Charles F. (Charles Francis)
In the first place it would be simony; and then it would be simony beyond all description mean and simoniacal.
From Framley Parsonage by Trollope, Anthony
Further, if a simoniacal election was unprecedented, what of Lorenzo Valla's fierce indictment of simony—for which he so narrowly escaped the clutches of the Inquisition some sixty years before this date?
From The Life of Cesare Borgia by Sabatini, Rafael
