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Simony

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Of or pertaining to simony guilty of simony consisting of simony

One who practices simony or who buys or sells preferment in the church

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One who practices simony

Matched in: Term Simony

pronounce a judgment; and it is also applied to the simony of clergymen going abroad to purchase benefices from the see

or neglect, or else some malfeasance or crime, as for simony; for neglecting to read the liturgy and articles in the

in reference to ecclesiastical property, viz., (1) lapse; and (2) simony. Forfeiture, according to Black's Law Dictionary 'to forfeit' is 'to

Contractus ex turpi causa et contra bonos mores (Hob. 167), simony is the will or desire of buying or selling spiritualities,

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