si|mo|ny

si|mo|ny «SY muh nee, SIHM uh-», noun, plural -nies.

1. the act of buying and selling sacred things.

2. the sin of buying or selling positions or promotions in the church.

╂[< Old French simonie, learned borrowing from Latin simōnia < Simōn Magus, who tried to buy the power of conferring the Holy Spirit. See Acts 8:9-24.]