Palsgrave.
Sim"mer, v. t. To cause to boil gently; to cook in liquid heated almost
or just to the boiling point.
Sim"nel (?), n. [OF. simenel cake or bread of wheat flour, LL.
simenellus wheat bread, fr. L. simila the finest wheat flour. Cf.
Semolina.] 1. A kind of cake made of fine flour; a cracknel. [Obs.]
Not common bread, but vastel bread, or simnels.
Fuller.
2. A kind of rich plum cake, eaten especially on Mid-Lent Sunday.
[Eng.] Herrick.
Si*mo"ni*ac (?), n. [LL. simoniacus. See Simony.] One who practices
simony, or who buys or sells preferment in the church. Ayliffe.
Sim`o*ni"a*cal (?), a. Of or pertaining to simony; guilty of simony;
consisting of simony. -- Sim"o*ni`a*cal*ly, adv.
The flagitious profligacy of their lives, and the simoniacal arts
by which they grasped at the popedom.
J. S. Harford.