He knew that Hildebrand had robbed him of the rights enjoyed by his father and predecessors; consequently the German nobles and simoniacal bishops urged him to annul the election and thus nip the violence of Hildebrand in the bud.
The King of France was called to account for his simoniacal practices and under threat of excommunication forced to promise reformation.
In 1328, at Carcassonne, a certain Germain Frevier was tried before it for blaspheming against John, and stigmatizing his election as simoniacal because he had promised never to set foot in stirrup till he should set out for Rome.
Its prohibition by several councils was caused by its simoniacal abuse.
France--to summon a general council, depose the simoniacal usurper who was polluting the chair of Peter, and reform the Church.
In the following August came the simoniacal election of Roderigo Borgia to the Papacy, as Alexander VI.
A simoniacalcompact is explicit, if expressed by clear words or signs (e.
Example: If a simoniacal transaction is forbidden under pain of loss of the price paid and received, the receiver is obliged to give the money to the poor.
Every simoniacal contract is invalid and of no force either in the external or in the internal forum, because it sells what is unsaleable under divine or ecclesiastical law.
Some moralists teach that there is no simony when a stipend is exacted for an obligatory ministry, if the simoniacal motive is absent.
The simoniacal exchange is made, whether a temporal annexed to a spiritual is given for another temporal annexed to a spiritual (e.
If a gift is bestowed in connection with a spiritual thing received, the presumption is for simoniacal intent, unless there was a sincere and reasonable motive for the gift.
Alexander III gave several rules for determining whether a gift is made from liberality or with simoniacal intent.
The following are marks of simoniacal intent: the quality of the giver (e.
I would all our simoniacal patrons, and such as detain tithes, would read those judicious tracts of Sir Henry Spelman, and Sir James Sempill, knights; those late elaborate and learned treatises of Dr.
And what shall we except that have such multitudes of Achans, church robbers, simoniacal patrons, &c.
Let our simoniacal church-chopping patrons, and sacrilegious harpies, look for no better success.
If he will enter at first, he must get in at that Simoniacal gate, come off soundly, and put in good security to perform all covenants, else he will not deal with, or admit him.
The flagitious profligacy of their lives, and the simoniacal arts by which they grasped at the popedom.
They condemned the simoniacal clergy in every rank, deposing them from their positions and commanding them to withdraw from the ministrations of the altar.
He was himself one of the excommunicated barons whom Gregory had struck for simoniacal grants of benefices; but he had not the courage to carry fire and flame into the very household of the Pope.
During the eight years of Leo's popedom Hildebrand had been at the head of affairs in Rome, where erring priests and simoniacal bishops had been not less severely brought to book than in other places.
Gregory had forbidden the people to accept the sacraments from the hands of vicious orsimoniacal priests.
And, since the number of simoniacal bishops was at that period extremely large, incalculable consequences resulted.
It would be simoniacal for a bishop to receive money for conferring holy orders or for appointment to a living.
But the simoniacal spirit, the essence of Simon's sin, is found in many quarters which are never suspected.
The result was that Philip continued his simoniacal transactions and never entirely gave up investiture, while Gregory allowed himself to be satisfied with occasional promises of better things.
Certain acts are simoniacal because they have been prohibited as such by Canon Law; but inasmuch as it is the Pope who had forbidden them, the prohibition does not bind him.
Dante has banned the memory of Nicholas as the simoniacal Pope.
At the first Lenten Synod held in the Lateran palace after Gregory's accession canons were issued forbidding all married orsimoniacal ecclesiastics to perform ministerial functions and all laity to attend their ministrations.
Yet it is simoniacal to do such things by contract, or with the intention of buying or selling.
Yet the latter seemingly is not simoniacal since it implies no buying or selling.
Further, if a simoniacal election was unprecedented, what of Lorenzo Valla's fierce indictment of simony--for which he so narrowly escaped the clutches of the Inquisition some sixty years before this date?
Or that that contemptible voluptuary at Rome, simoniacalusurper of Peter's keys, dare to absolve him whom the Holy Inquisition has condemned!
It would be easy to collect from the many biographies that have been written of Donna Olympia, a great number of anecdotes of her frauds, simoniacal dealings, selling of pardons, and the like.
There too, as in Florence, St. Pier Damiano played the part of peacemaker, and there also many preferred to die unassoiled, rather than take the sacrament from simoniacal priests.
This Ariald tells us that if we receive the Holy Sacrament from married or simoniacal priests, we eat our own damnation.
The Council pronounced a decree that no mercy should be shown to the simoniacal and married clergy.
Cadalus was acknowledged by all the simoniacal and married clergy, when he entered Italy; but the Princess Beatrice and the Duke of Tuscany prevented him from advancing to Rome.
Moreover, if your lordship wants to be thrown into the river by the furious people, when they know how long and how cunningly we have cheated them with our simoniacal trade in masses, I do not want to follow you into the cold stream.
We had, to some extent, diminished the simoniacal and infamous trade in masses, but unfortunately we had not destroyed it; and I know that to-day it has revived.
He often asks me to give a good word to some Simoniacal book.
Two or three weeks ago our Simoniacalmanager came into my office and asked me who that tramp was whom he had seen several times go away with books.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "simoniacal" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
