SIMONY

SIMONY. → Ecclesiastical corruption Ac 8:18,19

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simony. Simony, n. a buying or selling church preferment

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Sim″o‐ny (?), n. [[F. simonie, LL. simonia, fr. Simon Magus, who wished to purchase the power of conferring the Holy Spirit. Acts viii.]] The crime of buying or selling ecclesiastical preferment; the corrupt presentation of any one to an ecclesiastical benefice for money or reward. Piers Plowman.