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simonious

simonious adjective: simoniac.

Adjective

simonious (comparative more simonious, superlative most simonious)

  1. (obsolete) Simoniac.
    • [I]t is a deed of higheſt charitie to help undeceive the people, and a vvork vvorthieſt your autoritie, in all things els authors, aſſertors and novv recoverers of our libertie, to deliver us, the only people of all Proteſtants left ſtill undeliverd, from the oppreſſions of a Simonious decimating...1659, J[ohn] M[ilton], “To the Parlament of the Commonwealth of England with the Dominions therof”, in Considerations Touching the Likeliest Means to Remove Hirelings out of the Church. […], London...

Forms of simonious

comparativemore simonious
superlativemost simonious

Questions about simonious

What does simonious mean?
Simonious means simoniac.
What part of speech is simonious?
Simonious is an adjective.

Words near simonious in the dictionary

  1. Simonianism
  2. Simonians
  3. Simonidean
  4. Simonides
  5. simonies
  6. simonious
  7. simonise
  8. simonised
  9. simonises
  10. simonising
  11. Simonism

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