Simoniacal

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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Simoniacal \Sim`o*ni"a*cal\, a.
     Of or pertaining to simony; guilty of simony; consisting of
     simony. -- {Sim"o*ni`a*cal*ly}, adv.
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           The flagitious profligacy of their lives, and the


           simoniacal arts by which they grasped at the popedom.
                                                    --J. S.
                                                    Harford.
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