Examples of 'tonsured' in a sentence
Meaning of "tonsured"
tonsured (verb) - The act of shaving the head or part of the head, typically for religious or ceremonial purposes. It is a common practice in various cultures and religions, such as Buddhism and Christianity
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- simple past tense and past participle of tonsure
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Later he was tonsured into the great schema.
His hair was fair in color and tonsured.
Has tonsured his head for the movie.
Many began to come to the monk seeking to be tonsured.
He was tonsured as a monk in ca.
To trample your temerity we have tonsured your heads.
Sometimes the language of the tonsured author takes on an undiscussable and amazing sharpness.
A name is given to the one being tonsured.
The tonsured head with a small tuft was the talk of the industry for a long time.
He will have you tonsured.
You will be tonsured and named Wanshi.
Your head should be tonsured.
At some point he tonsured his mother as a Nun.
The saint spent three years in seclusion after being tonsured.
I must be tonsured.
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The tonsured Caesar retained some influence on political events.
Atleast you get tonsured.
Arsaber himself was tonsured and exiled to a monastery in Bithynia.
The group was tonsured.
Alexander was tonsured as a monk with the name Stephen.
The woman carries herself with the refinement of a tonsured goat.
Later he was tonsured a monk and took the name Arsenios.
In former years it was the custom that monks were tonsured in this chapel.
He was tonsured into the monastic schema with the name of Cyril.
I did not say anything even when you tonsured him in your office.
He was later tonsured a monk and labored at Vardzia Monastery.
After spending some time there he decided to remain and be tonsured a monk.
Shortly before his death he was tonsured with the monastic name Antony.
He was tonsured a monk in the Midznadzori Wilderness.
I made a vow to get you tonsured at Tirupathi.
He was tonsured and sent to the Cluniac monastery at Montacute in Somerset.
In Smyrna he was tonsured a monk.
Think it will change only if I go to Pazhanitomorrow and get my head tonsured.
She entered a convent and was tonsured with the name Juliana.
Retrospective iconography of Bruno shows him with a Dominican cowl but not tonsured.
Childeric III and his son were tonsured and sent off to a monastery.
At the age of twelve Nikoloz traveled to the Klarjeti Wilderness and was tonsured a monk.
Shortly before his death he was tonsured a monk and received the name Matthew.
The monk of Belur Math the ashram full of tonsured monks.
At the age of fifteen he was tonsured a monk at the Latomos Monastery of Thessalonica.
The Annals of Tigernach he was tonsured.
The hegumen relented and tonsured Nikon with the name Nikandr.
There, the four brothers were castrated and tonsured.
The abbot relented and tonsured Nikon with the name Nicander.
If he fails to cut it, his head will be tonsured in public.
His Eminence tonsured Mother Ivonne on the same occasion.
The igumen fulfilled his request with joy and tonsured him with the name Athanasios.
After the failure of this campaign, he was dismissed and tonsured.
Later Saint Onuphrius desired to be tonsured into the great schema.
Those tonsured devils are burning our valley, and we must respond.
