Sĭm'/o-nī'a-cal, a.

adjective

a. Guilty of, consisting of, involving, or pertaining to, simony.

He [Savonarola] glanced at the voluptuousness of the popes, at the flagitious prodigacy of their lives, and at the simoniacal arts by which they grasped at the popedom. J. S. Harford.