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siˈmonian1, n. and a. rare.
Also 4 symonyan, -yen.
[f. simony + -an, or ad. OF. *simonien.]
†A. n. A simoniac, simonist. Obs.
c1380Wyclif Serm. Sel. Wks. II. 148 Hise ȝiftis ben not mesurid bi man, alȝif symonyens mesuren þer grace, & ȝyven pleyner absolucion..for more money. c1380― Last Age Ch. (1840) 25 Chaffare walkynge in derkenessis is þe pryui heresie of symonyans. 1567–8Abp. Parker Corr. (Parker Soc.) 311, I sent my visitors into Norwich,..whereof I heard..that Quid vultis mihi dare? had so much prevailed there among the Simonians.
B. adj. Simoniacal.
1854Milman Lat. Chr. viii. i. III. 271 The clergy of Saxony resolved to expel all the intruding and Simonian bishops (those who had received investiture from the Emperor). |