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单词 simoniac
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simoniacn.adj.

Brit. /sᵻˈməʊnɪak/, U.S. /səˈmoʊniˌæk/, /saɪˈmoʊniˌæk/
Forms:

α. Middle English symoniac, Middle English symoniak, Middle English–1500s symonyac, Middle English (in a late copy)–1500s symonyake, 1500s simonak, 1500s simoniache, 1500s simoniacke, 1500s symonyak, 1500s–1600s simoniak, 1500s–1600s simoniake, 1500s–1600s symoniack, 1500s–1600s symoniake, 1500s–1700s simoniack, 1500s– simoniac, 1600s simoniach, 1600s simoniak, 1600s symmoniacke.

β. 1600s simonaick, 1600s simonayck, 1600s symonaick, 1800s– simonaic.

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.
A person who practises or has practised simony; a buyer or seller of ecclesiastical or spiritual benefits, especially preferment or office in the church.Formerly frequently with capital initial.
ΘΚΠ
society > faith > worship > benefice > simony > [noun] > one characterized by
simoniac1340
chop-church1391
simonient1395
Simonianc1400
simonialc1405
simoniera1425
gyesite1426
barrator1427
simoner1438
simoniacle1502
simonite1508
Balaamite1559
simonist1567
chopper1581
benefice-monger1583
church-chopper1631
chop-living1634
α.
1340 Ayenbite (1866) 41 Þeruore hi byeþ y-cleped Symoniaks alle þo þet wylleþ zelle oþer begge þe gostliche þinges.
c1500 (?a1475) Assembly of Gods (1896) l. 680 Pryuy symonyakes, with false vsurers.
1548 Hall's Vnion: Henry VIII f. ccxlvj He saied that the Pope was a Simoniack, euer sellyng gyftes.
1592 T. Tymme Plaine Discouerie Ten Eng. Lepers D 3 Both the seller and the buier of spirituall things are Simoniacks.
1636 W. Prynne Unbishoping of Timothy & Titus 111 A Bishop.., although hee be a Simoniack, Heretick, excommunicate person,..may yet firmely ordaine others.
1682 R. Baxter Answer Mr. Dodwell & Dr. Sherlocke iii. 22 Such as divers General Councils judged Hereticks, Infidels, Simoniaks, &c.
1726 J. Ayliffe Parergon Juris Canonici Anglicani 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 Presbyterian Lett. 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 Hist. Lat. Christianity III. vi. iii. 90 Peter, Bishop of Florence, was accused as a Simoniac.
1881 Church Times Apr. 211 We should say that simoniacs seldom disturb congregations.
1904 A. H. H. Murray et al. Sketches Old Road through France to Florence (1905) xiii. 295 Saint John Gualbert was to become the terror of the Simoniacs, the hammer of the Nicolaitans.
1984 G. Jennings Journeyer (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 Hist. Jrnl. 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 Reply G. Browne 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 Hist. Kirk Scotl. (1842) 50 The contraveeners to be punished with all severitie and rigour as simonaicks.1678 T. Jones Of Heart & Soveraign 349 There was but one bishop in all the isle of Britain then, and he afterwards a Simonaick.1879 Harper's New Monthly Mag. Feb. 402/2 Under the guise of the money-changers Jordaens represented the Simonaics and the papal court.1968 New Blackfriars Jan. 200 [These Popes] were not canonically elected because they were simonaics.1985 Columbia Law Rev. 85 1580 Tellenbach..attributes to Humbert of Moyenmoutier's Three Books Against the Simonaics in 1058 the start of the Investiture Crisis.
B. adj.
Relating to, of the nature of, or involving simony; that practises or has practised simony; that has obtained office by means of simony; = simoniacal adj.
ΘΚΠ
society > faith > worship > benefice > simony > [adjective]
simonient1395
simoniaca1500
simoniacal1510
simonial1510
simonical?1532
Balaamitical1561
simonious1595
simonist1681
a1500 (c1410) Dives & Pauper (Hunterian) (1980) 173 (MED) Som þingis arn defendyt for it ben symonyac, as byyng & sellyng of þe sacramentis of holy chirche.
1632 D. Lupton London & Countrey Carbonadoed (1857) 306 Like a false Canoniere, that came by his place by Simoniacke meanes.
1688 Act 1 Will. & Mary c. 16 Preamble Persons simoniack or simoniacally promoted to benefices.
1755 tr. Voltaire Ann. Empire II. 55 The council of Basil depose him from the papal chair, declaring him rebellious, simoniac, schismatical, heretical and perjured.
1820 Tomlins's Law-Dict. (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 Sewanee Rev. 1 39 He..found it [sc. England] in ecclesiastical anarchy, but two sees worthily filled, a third in simoniac hands, the rest vacant.
1900 Speaker 3 Mar. 588 The Simoniac baseness of the Universities.
1913 H. Gerard tr. A. Maurel Little Cities of Italy 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 MLN 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).
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