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The buying or selling of ecclesiastical offices or of indulgences or other spiritual things.

The act or practice of trafficking in sacred things; particularly, the buying or selling of ecclesiastical preferment, or the corrupt presentation of any one to an ecclesiastical benefice for money or reward.

The crime of buying or selling ecclesiastical preferment; the corrupt presentation of any one to an ecclesiastical benefice for money or reward.

The act of buying and selling ecclesiastical offices and pardons.

traffic in ecclesiastical offices or preferments