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simoniacn.adj. Origin: A borrowing from Latin. Etymon: Latin simoniacus. Etymology: < post-classical Latin simoniacus (adjective) characterized by or involving simony (6th cent.), (noun) person who practises simony (10th cent.) < simonia simony n. + classical Latin -acus -ac suffix. With the use as adjective compare earlier simonient adj.Compare Anglo-Norman simoniak , Middle French symoniaque , Middle French, French simoniaque (early 14th cent. in Anglo-Norman as adjective (late 14th cent. in continental French), mid 15th cent. as noun), and also Old Occitan simoniacx , adjective (12th cent.), Catalan simoníac (early 15th cent. as noun; also as adjective), Spanish simoniaco , noun (13th cent.; also as adjective), Portuguese simoniaco , adjective and noun (14th cent.), Italian simoniaco (late 13th cent. as adjective and noun). Specific forms. With the β. forms compare e.g. Pharisaic adj., and also post-classical Latin simonaicus (from 1636 in British sources). Compare also β. forms at simoniacal adj. Christian Church. Now chiefly historical. A. n.society > faith > worship > benefice > simony > [noun] > one characterized by α. 1340 (1866) 41 Þeruore hi byeþ y-cleped Symoniaks alle þo þet wylleþ zelle oþer begge þe gostliche þinges. c1500 (?a1475) (1896) l. 680 Pryuy symonyakes, with false vsurers. 1548 f. ccxlvj He saied that the Pope was a Simoniack, euer sellyng gyftes. 1592 T. Tymme D 3 Both the seller and the buier of spirituall things are Simoniacks. 1636 W. Prynne 111 A Bishop.., although hee be a Simoniack, Heretick, excommunicate person,..may yet firmely ordaine others. 1682 R. Baxter iii. 22 Such as divers General Councils judged Hereticks, Infidels, Simoniaks, &c. 1726 J. Ayliffe 234 If the Bishop appears, and alledges..that the Person presented is a Simoniac, unlearned, and the like, then they are to proceed to Tryal. 1809 P. Mitchell xxviii. 254 There is not..one Bishop in the west of Europe, at this day, who does not derive his orders from the apostles through Simoniacs. 1854 H. H. Milman III. vi. iii. 90 Peter, Bishop of Florence, was accused as a Simoniac. 1881 Apr. 211 We should say that simoniacs seldom disturb congregations. 1904 A. H. H. Murray et al. (1905) xiii. 295 Saint John Gualbert was to become the terror of the Simoniacs, the hammer of the Nicolaitans. 1984 G. Jennings (1988) Baghdad vii. 259 Their priests are..all..simoniacs, for they will not administer any of the sacraments except for a fee of money paid. 2010 53 915 He [sc. Laud] fussed over the moral life of cathedral closes, ensuring that they were free of usurers, drunkards, adulterers, simoniacs, recusants, and schoolboys throwing stones. β. 1602 J. Welch 312 He was an heretick, a Symonaick, a lyar, an hypocrite, a murtherer, a dicer, an adulterer a Sodomite, and what not?1650 J. Row & J. Row (1842) 50 The contraveeners to be punished with all severitie and rigour as simonaicks.1678 T. Jones 349 There was but one bishop in all the isle of Britain then, and he afterwards a Simonaick.1879 Feb. 402/2 Under the guise of the money-changers Jordaens represented the Simonaics and the papal court.1968 Jan. 200 [These Popes] were not canonically elected because they were simonaics.1985 85 1580 Tellenbach..attributes to Humbert of Moyenmoutier's Three Books Against the Simonaics in 1058 the start of the Investiture Crisis. B. adj.society > faith > worship > benefice > simony > [adjective] a1500 (c1410) (Hunterian) (1980) 173 (MED) Som þingis arn defendyt for it ben symonyac, as byyng & sellyng of þe sacramentis of holy chirche. 1632 D. Lupton (1857) 306 Like a false Canoniere, that came by his place by Simoniacke meanes. 1688 c. 16 Preamble Persons simoniack or simoniacally promoted to benefices. 1755 tr. Voltaire II. 55 The council of Basil depose him from the papal chair, declaring him rebellious, simoniac, schismatical, heretical and perjured. 1820 (ed. 3) II. at Simony A parishioner who has compounded with the parson one year for his tithes, and has not determined the composition, cannot set up as a defence to an action for the next year's composition, that the parson is simoniac. 1892 1 39 He..found it [sc. England] in ecclesiastical anarchy, but two sees worthily filled, a third in simoniac hands, the rest vacant. 1900 3 Mar. 588 The Simoniac baseness of the Universities. 1913 H. Gerard tr. A. Maurel II. iii. 55 What the cities want..is to have an end of these simoniac and concubine bishops, who have to pay the Emperor for their supremacy and their jurisdiction. 2006 121 18 The controversial Liber Gratissimus, a treatise claiming the validity of the ordination of simoniac clerics. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2019; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.adj.1340 |