Examples of 'tonsure' in a sentence
Meaning of "tonsure"
Tonsure refers to the act of shaving the head or part of the head, especially as a religious practice. It is commonly associated with certain religious orders or rites
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- To shave the crown of the head as a sign of humility and religious vocation.
- A ritual shaving of this kind.
- The hairstyle and characteristic bald patch resulting from being tonsured.
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I could fashion me a tonsure in which is secreted a midget.
Let me tell you about the tonsure.
Then ceremonies of tonsure of hair of oldest daughter.
All of them were forced to accept the tonsure.
It was decided to tonsure the dying into schema.
Call her over to take the tonsure.
People tonsure heads in tirupathi or kasi to fulfill vow.
Historically there are three different types of tonsure.
The bat tonsure is a nice touch.
You can trim my hair or tonsure my head.
Your smooth tonsure will show blood stains.
The bishop confers the first tonsure.
They have tonsure ice cream.
Because it could be innocently mistaken for a tonsure.
A dorsal tonsure is delimited on each animal after epilation.
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He has not even got a tonsure.
Conferring first tonsure and the minor orders.
On the second day is the tonsure.
We must tonsure their heads and take them on a donkey.
When he was seventeen years old he received monastic tonsure.
Over ten million people tonsure their hair every year.
His hair always appears cut with a tonsure.
You will receive tonsure once you adapt to our ways.
In a short while they received the monastic tonsure.
You will receive tonsure after you start learning sutra.
And he received the monastic tonsure.
Borromeo received the tonsure when he was about twelve years old.
You can not proceed with the tonsure ceremony.
You tonsure head.
She will then receive the apostolnik at her tonsure.
Tonsure his head.
He just took the tonsure.
It began with the tonsure during the first year of theology.
Go patly out your tonsure.
We must then dissociate the tonsure from the idea of a priestly vocation.
Why monks have a tonsure.
He received monastic tonsure at this same monastery where his wife had been.
His hair was short and he had a tonsure like a priest.
He will receive tonsure when he gets used to the life of an ascetic monk.
This was also the time when he received his tonsure.
We have as much to fear from the tonsure as from the hauberk.
At the back of the head the hair appears to be shaved in a tonsure.
He should carry the clerical tonsure the size of one silver real.
In one of these his wife and mother accepted monastic tonsure.
Vows are fulfilled and marriages and tonsure ceremonies are performed frequently at this shrine.
He will receive tonsure.
We tonsure our heads as a vow to God.
Please give me tonsure.
Therefore the tonsure by which he is made a cleric is an Order.
It extends to first tonsure.
