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Simony is the ecclesiastical crime of paying for holy offices or positions in
the hierarchy of a church, named after Simon Magus, who appears in the
Acts of the Apostles 8:18-24. Simon Magus offers the disciples of Jesus,
Peter and John, payment so that anyone he would place his hands on
would receive the power of the Holy Spirit. This is the origin of the term
simony but it also extends to other forms of trafficking for money
in "spiritual things".
Magi (singular 'magian', 'mage', 'magus', 'magusian', 'magusaean')
is a wanderwort whose meaning has since at least the 4th century BCE
denoted a follower of Zoroaster, or rather, a follower of what the
Hellenistic world associated Zoroaster with, which was – in the main – the
ability to read the stars, and manipulate the fate that the stars foretold.
The meaning prior to Hellenistic period is uncertain.
reading and fate manipulation...
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appropriate
–adjective
1. suitable or fitting for a particular purpose, person, occasion, etc.: an appropriate example; an appropriate dress.
2. belonging to or peculiar to a person; proper: Each played his appropriate part.
–verb (used with object)
3. to set apart, authorize, or legislate for some specific purpose or use: The legislature appropriated funds for the university.
4. to take to or for oneself; take possession of.
5. to take without permission or consent; seize; expropriate: He appropriated the trust funds for himself.
6. to steal, esp. to commit petty theft.
appropriate
–adjective
1. suitable or fitting for a particular purpose, person, occasion, etc.: an appropriate example; an appropriate dress.
2. belonging to or peculiar to a person; proper: Each played his appropriate part.
–verb (used with object)
3. to set apart, authorize, or legislate for some specific purpose or use: The legislature appropriated funds for the university.
4. to take to or for oneself; take possession of.
5. to take without permission or consent; seize; expropriate: He appropriated the trust funds for himself.
6. to steal, esp. to commit petty theft.
Main Entry: shotgun approach
Part of Speech: n
Definition: the hasty use of a wide range of techniques that are nonselective and haphazard
Example: She favored the shotgun approach to handling problems.
4. being the object or goal of one's efforts or actions.
5. not influenced by personal feelings, interpretations, or prejudice; based
on facts; unbiased: an objective opinion.
6. intent upon or dealing with things external to the mind rather than with
thoughts or feelings, as a person or a book.
7. being the object of perception or thought; belonging to the object of
thought rather than to the thinking subject (opposed to subjective ).
8. of or pertaining to something that can be known, or to something that
is an object or a part of an object; existing independent of thought or an
observer as part of reality.
