Adjective:

এ্যামোনিয়াক্যাল,

simoniacal's Usage Examples:

such as bishops and abbots, by a secular authority came to be considered simoniacal and this became a key issue during the Investiture Controversy.

which the House of Lords declared that bonds of special resignation were simoniacal.

He condemned nepotism and all simoniacal actions and was known for the pureness and meekness of his faith.

excesses", in permitting laymen to act as curates, and in entering into simoniacal contracts for the disposal of preferments.

He was succeeded by Renaud II, who secured his election with a simoniacal payment Count Geoffrey.

But the latter rejected all these simoniacal gifts to favour the election of Sulpitius.

pontificate of the Holy Roman Church, because of the enormous error which by simoniacal impurity has crept into and vitiated my election.

stricter ecclesiastical attitude, and eventually withdrew (1121) from the simoniacal Bishop Hermann, and took refuge in the monastery of Raitenbuch in the.

to the effect that ordinations performed by heretical, schismatical or simoniacal ministers are to be considered as valid ["Tractatus de ordine", cap.

A simoniacal presentation would be invalid.

So concerned were the Grandmontines regarding simoniacal entry that in the customary composed about 1170, it was forbidden to ask.

Arialdo headed the pataria, a movement that sought to reform Milan's simoniacal clergy.

election as beginning with some clergy who were dissatisfied with Paschal's simoniacal favoritism of the Colonna and Pierleoni families.

Religious or laity who assist in a simoniacal ordination (i.

The bishops of the synod assured Gratian that this act was indeed simoniacal, regardless of his virtuous motivations for it, and called upon him to.

at Girona in 1068, 1078, and 1097, and was forced to act against his simoniacal relative, Wifred, Archbishop of Narbonne.

power for getting money; a plain condemnation of the abomination of the simoniacal heresy.

active part in the libel against Robert Montgomery, Bishop of Glasgow, for simoniacal practices.

However, this settlement was attacked by Archbishop Peckham as being simoniacal.