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simoniacal, a.|sɪməˈnaɪəkəl|
Also 7 simonaicall.
[f. prec. + -al1.]
1. Of the nature of, pertaining to, or involving simony.
α1567Jewel Def. Apol. v. 562 These thinges are Simoniacal..that are forebidden in the Olde and Newe Testamente. a1600Hooker Eccl. Pol. vii. xxiv. §8 Simoniacal corruption I may not.. suspect to be amongst men of so great place. 1642Rogers Naaman 145, I may say of this Selfe, as we say of Simoniacall contracts for Benefices, that such Simony creates a lapse. 1740Richardson Pamela (1824) I. lxxxiii. 443 Mr. Williams..declined the stipulated eighty pounds.., as he thought it would have a Simoniacal appearance. 1765Blackstone Comm. I. 60 When the common law censures simoniacal contracts. 1827Bentham's Ration. Judic. Evid. V. 582 To dispute his lessor's title, by proving that his presentation was simoniacal. 1876Freeman Norm. Conq. V. 380 The exaction of such a price..was both oppressive and simoniacal.
β1648Gage West Ind. 2 If he would deliver at once all those his Purgatory Prisoners without the Simonaicall receipt of money.
2. Of persons: Guilty of or practising simony.
α1569in Strype Ann. Ref. (1709) I. lv. 563 Yea, and in simoniacal heeps cathedral churches are stuffed with them, as dens of thieves. 1621Burton Anat. Mel. To Rdr. (1651) 44 What shall we expect that have such multitudes of Achans, church robbers, simoniacal patrons. 1641Milton Animadv. Wks. 1851 III. 233 Away with such young mercenary striplings and their Simoniacall fathers. 1712Steele Spect. No. 298 ⁋8 The Simoniacal Ladies, who seduce the sacred Order into the Difficulty [etc.]. 1759Robertson Hist. Scot. vi. Wks. 1813 I. 427 Declaimed loudly against the simoniacal faction. 1848Q. Rev. Mar. 122 One piece..is a song levelled at Simoniacal prelates. 1897Mrs. Oliphant Makers Rome 236 They condemned the simoniacal clergy in every rank.
β1631High Commission Cases (Camden) 249 It is but to punish him as simonaicall. 1632Lithgow Trav. i. 20 The bribing hands of the Simonaicall Minions.
3. Tainted or marked by simony.
1575–85Abp. Sandys Serm. xx. 346 We haue happely forsaken..that polluted Church, that simoniacall temple. 1641Milton Ch. Govt. ii. iii, Would he preferre those proud simoniacall Courts?
Hence simoˈniacalness, ‘the being of a Simoniacal Nature’ (Bailey, vol. II, 1727). |