Dictionary entry

Simoniacal

Webster's Dictionary 1913

Sim′o‐ni″a‐cal (?), a. 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.