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Definition of simony in English: simonynounˈsɪməniˈsʌɪməni mass nounhistorical The buying or selling of ecclesiastical privileges, for example pardons or benefices. Example sentencesExamples - He also outlawed simony, the practice of buying and selling church posts.
- To manipulate religious conviction into a political commodity is a contemporary form of simony.
- The Council passed reforming decrees in keeping with the Cluniac reform movement, including ones concerning simony and clerical marriage.
- Here, it was a question of uniformity of liturgical observance, of conformity to what Turgot called ‘the universal custom of holy church’ rather than of Gregorian reform in the sense of attacks on simony and clerical marriage.
- Selling something that belonged to God constituted the sin of simony.
Derivatives adjectivesʌɪˈməʊnɪaksɪˈməʊnɪakˌsaɪməˈnaɪək historical Relating to or engaging in simony (the buying or selling of ecclesiastical privileges) a simoniac priest whose wealth came from selling overbooked Masses Example sentencesExamples - The validity of priestly ordinations administered by simoniac bishops proved a serious problem, because most theologians held that simony prostituted the sacrament of ordination.
- Archbishop Laud and his allies, by deciding such arrangements in the Church were simoniac, needlessly disturbed the retirement of elderly clergymen.
- Dante sees there barrators, sowers of discord, counterfeiters, misusers of public funds, and simoniac popes.
adjectivesɪməˈnʌɪək(ə)lsʌɪməˈnʌɪək(ə)lˌsaɪməˈnaɪək(ə)l historical We had, to some extent, diminished the simoniacal and infamous trade in masses; but unfortunately we had not destroyed it; and I know that today it has revived. Example sentencesExamples - He re-ordained many men who had been ordained by simoniacal bishops.
- At the same time he sought to check the simoniacal practices of the apostolic chamber, and in connection with this to introduce a simpler and more economical manner of life into his court.
Origin Middle English: from Old French simonie, from late Latin simonia, from Simon Magus (Acts 8:18). Definition of simony in US English: simonynoun historical The buying or selling of ecclesiastical privileges, for example pardons or benefices. Example sentencesExamples - Here, it was a question of uniformity of liturgical observance, of conformity to what Turgot called ‘the universal custom of holy church’ rather than of Gregorian reform in the sense of attacks on simony and clerical marriage.
- Selling something that belonged to God constituted the sin of simony.
- The Council passed reforming decrees in keeping with the Cluniac reform movement, including ones concerning simony and clerical marriage.
- He also outlawed simony, the practice of buying and selling church posts.
- To manipulate religious conviction into a political commodity is a contemporary form of simony.
Origin Middle English: from Old French simonie, from late Latin simonia, from Simon Magus (Acts 8:18). |