The selling of pardons was simply a lower kind of simoniacal bartering which pervaded the whole hierarchical establishment.    From Wordnik.com.  [Luther and the Reformation: The Life-Springs of Our Liberties] Reference

Yet the latter seemingly is not simoniacal since it implies no buying or selling.    From Wordnik.com.  [Summa Theologica, Part II-II (Secunda Secundae) Translated by Fathers of the English Dominican Province] Reference

The very day of his coronation he had obtained the dismissal of a simoniacal deacon.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Truce of God A Tale of the Eleventh Century] Reference

Yet it is simoniacal to do such things by contract, or with the intention of buying or selling.    From Wordnik.com.  [Summa Theologica, Part II-II (Secunda Secundae) Translated by Fathers of the English Dominican Province] Reference

Let our simoniacal church-chopping patrons, and sacrilegious harpies, look for no better success.    From Wordnik.com.  [Anatomy of Melancholy] Reference

The persecution by the simoniacal archbishop of Rheims, Manasses, hastened his resolve to enter a life of solitude 1084.    From Wordnik.com.  [St. Bruno, priest] Reference

And if the bishop has been guilty of simony otherwise than by a simoniacal promotion, and the fact be a secret, one can receive.    From Wordnik.com.  [Summa Theologica, Part II-II (Secunda Secundae) Translated by Fathers of the English Dominican Province] Reference

The ancients were much more severe and less simoniacal than we are notwithstanding that they imputed so many foolish actions to their gods.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Philosophical Dictionary] Reference

In like manner, while it is simoniacal for an abdicant to stipulate for.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 11: New Mexico-Philip] Reference

And against his simony and simoniacal indulgences we use that sentence of.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Creeds of the Evangelical Protestant Churches.] Reference

It was worse than any other; it was hypocritical, sacrilegious, simoniacal.    From Wordnik.com.  [X. Part II.—Paralipomena] Reference

But the latter rejected all these simoniacal gifts to favour the election of.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 14: Simony-Tournon] Reference

Philip thought there was something strange, perhaps simoniacal, about the bargain.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Book of the Bush Containing Many Truthful Sketches Of The Early Colonial Life Of Squatters, Whalers, Convicts, Diggers, And Others Who Left Their Native Land And Never Returned] Reference

He was omnipresent, through his legates, Punishing simoniacal bishops and incontinent clerics.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 1: Aachen-Assize] Reference

Meanwhile the question arose as to the validity of the ordinations of simoniacal clerics. the prior of.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 11: New Mexico-Philip] Reference

In the first place it would be simony; and then it would be simony beyond all description mean and simoniacal.    From Wordnik.com.  [Framley Parsonage] Reference

The result was that Philip continued his simoniacal transactions and never entirely gave up investiture, while.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Church and the Empire, Being an Outline of the History of the Church from A.D. 1003 to A.D. 1304] Reference

Cardinal Humbert affirmed the nullity of simoniacal ordinations as did also the Synod of Girona (Spain) in 1078.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 12: Philip II-Reuss] Reference

Mezzobarbo, known also as Peter of Pavia, was publicly accused of simoniacal acquisition of the episcopal dignity.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 11: New Mexico-Philip] Reference

Luckily, someone else bought it first, and has perhaps burst out in boils in consequence of his simoniacal passion.    From Wordnik.com.  [Telegraph.co.uk: news, business, sport, the Daily Telegraph newspaper, Sunday Telegraph] Reference

While, this definition only speaks of purchase and sale, any exchange of spiritual for temporal things is simoniacal.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 14: Simony-Tournon] Reference

Gradually Gerhoh adopted a stricter ecclesiastical attitude, and eventually withdrew (1121) from the simoniacal Bishop.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 6: Fathers of the Church-Gregory XI] Reference

Lyons attracted the attention of Cardinal Hildebrand, who held a council there in 1055 against the simoniacal bishops.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 9: Laprade-Mass Liturgy] Reference

IX, he expressed so energetically against the reigning abuses that even the simoniacal bishops could not withstand his zeal.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 7: Gregory XII-Infallability] Reference

In the last three centuries there are few events to mention, apart from simoniacal elections and perpetual domestic quarrels.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 4: Clandestinity-Diocesan Chancery] Reference

Of the prevalence of simoniacal practices, of a scandalous and widespread neglect of the canons enjoining clerical celibacy, and of.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 5: Diocese-Fathers of Mercy] Reference