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Webster's 1828 Dictionary

SIMONIACAL

a. 1. Guilty of simony.
2. Consisting in simony, or the crime of buying or selling ecclesiastical preferment; as a simoniacal presentation.

 

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

SIMONIACAL

SIMONIACAL Sim `o *ni "a *cal, a.

 

Defn: 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.