simoniac

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Example sentences from the Web for simoniac

• This was a man very greedy of money, and a simoniac, which sold in his court every Inf.

  Villani's Chronicle|Giovanni Villani

• The Archbishop, after some consideration, answered, "To refrain from deposing a simoniac."

  Freaks of Fanaticism|Sabine Baring-Gould

• Oxford gave the signal by hunting a Papal legate out of the city amid cries of "usurer" and "simoniac" from the mob of students.

  History of the English People, Volume II (of 8)|John Richard Green