Definition of "simoniac" [si•mo•ni•ac]

• One who practices simony. (noun)

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• "Anita by describing the strong chastisements of Honuphrius and the depravities (turpissimas!) of Canicula, the deceased wife of Mauritius, with Sulla, the simoniac, who is abnegand and repents."
• "But then I remembered that it had died of paralysis and I felt that I too was smiling feebly as if to absolve the simoniac of his sin."
• "So one may not want to show up the simoniac rector before his own congregation (and the celebrants 'friends and relatives) not only because it makes the Church, which is divine, look bad, but also because Father Stock might go to pieces when his grossness becomes widely known and fall prey to the devil through despair."