SIMONY
| Pronunciation: | | 'sImunee
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| Matching Terms: | | Simon, Simon Bolivar, Simon de Montfort, Simon Kuznets, Simon Legree, Simon Marks, Simon Newcomb, Simon Peter, Simon the Canaanite, Simon the Zealot, Simon Zelotes, --Simonds., Simone, Simone de Beauvoir, Simone Weil, Simoniac, Simoniacal, Simonial, Simonian, Simonious, Simonist, Simoniz, Simonize, Simon-pure, Simonyi, Charles
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| | Definition: | | [n] traffic in ecclesiastical offices or preferments |
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| | See Also: | | traffic | |
| Webster's 1913 Dictionary |
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| | Definition: | | \Sim"o*ny\, n. [F. simonie, LL. simonia, fr. Simon Magus,
who wished to purchase the power of conferring the Holy
Spirit. Acts viii.]
The crime of buying or selling ecclesiastical preferment; the
corrupt presentation of any one to an ecclesiastical benefice
for money or reward. --Piers Plowman.
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