simony

1. A Franciscan from Genoa, he enriched his family and the Papal States through simony and heavy taxation.
   原为热那亚方济会修士，通过买卖圣职圣物和收取高额税收而使家庭和教廷国致富。
2. Nicholas II secured a decree that, for the future, ordinations by men guilty of simony were not tobe valid.
   尼古拉二世严格执行了一项教令，确定今后凡经由圣职买卖而获得的圣职一概无效。

noun

1. traffic in ecclesiastical offices or preferments

   Synonym:    barratry