simoniacal Meaning, Definition & Usage

Sim`o*ni"a*cal adjective
Definitions
  1. Of or pertaining to simony; guilty of simony; consisting of simony. -- Sim"o*ni`a*cal*ly, adv.
    The flagitious profligacy of their lives, and the simoniacal arts by which they grasped at the popedom. J. S. Harford.

Webster 1913