tonsure

/ton-sher/US // ˈtɒn ʃər //UK // (ˈtɒnʃə) //

砺剑,砺炼,砺剑术,砺石

Definitions

n.名词 noun

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- : the act of cutting the hair or shaving the head.
- : the shaving of the head or of some part of it as a religious practice or rite, especially in preparation for entering the priesthood or a monastic order.
- : the part of a cleric's head, usually the crown, left bare by shaving the hair.
- : the state of being shorn.

v.有主动词 verb

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ton·sured, ton·sur·ing.
- : to confer the ecclesiastical tonsure upon.
- : to subject to tonsure.

But he never took orders, the clerical tonsure being a sufficient qualification for holding canonries.
The student was exempted by his tonsure from lay jurisdiction.
Assured, however, that he was in Dublin, he scratched his tonsure once more.
Pretty children, with their hair clipped around their heads like a priest's tonsure, sport around us, but are not intrusive.
There was a fifth, a baker who wore the tonsure and was delivered to the episcopal court, which sentenced him to vergenza.