c. 1200, "the sin of buying or selling sacred things," from Old French simonie "selling of church offices" (12c.), from Late Latin simonia, from Simon Magus, the Samaritan magician [..]

1) The buying or selling of spiritual things, particularly church offices and benefice.    (MEDIEV-L. Medieval Terms) 2) The buying or selling of sacred things, such as sacraments and ecclesiastic [..]

  In Christian canon law, the sale or purchase of a spiritual service, benefit, or office. The term derives from the New Testament story of Simon Magus, who tried to buy the gifts of the Holy Spirit f [..]

Simony is the crime of paying for sacraments and consequently for holy offices or positions in the hierarchy of a church. It is a crime of corruption for the purpose of a Church or religious benefit. [..]

(n) traffic in ecclesiastical offices or preferments

Buying and selling church livings; any unlawful traffic in holy things. So called from Simon Magus, who wanted to purchase the “gift of the Holy Ghost,” that he might have the power [..]

A type of bribe. It is paying money or giving gifts in return for a church office. See Abuses by the clergy

Maggy Simony Publisher and author of a new bridge publication title Bridge Table, which, in the author's workds, is about the history and pop culture of the kind of bridge played by Marla Paul’s [..]