How To Use Tonsure In A Sentence
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A hundred and fifty tonsured apostles of incivism here fell in one day beneath the two-handed sword of freedom.
Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine — Volume 55, No. 341, March, 1844
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One of the disputed matters might seem absurd to us now: it was the form of the tonsure, the way in which monks shaved the tops of their heads.
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Hence the patriots of Malcy village had earmarked her for tonsure.
DISPLACED PERSON
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At that time Nimmyo's mother, Dowager Empress Saga, took the tonsure and entered a temple.
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Peruse any illustrated Inferno, and you will find, among the pictured thieves, usurers, murderers, and traitors, numerous tonsured pates, episcopal miters, and papal tiaras.
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The mobs in Balliguda caught hold of two boys of the Catholic hostel and tonsured their heads.
Oh, Fine. Just Fine.
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Former Chinese actress and business celebrity Chen Xiaoxu has taken the tonsure at a Buddhist temple in Changchun, capital of Jilin province in northeast China, her husband told a newspaper Sunday.
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His cowl had fallen back, exposing his tonsure.
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Then her beautiful locks are submitted to the tonsure; and to signify her deadness forever to the world, she is clothed in a dress of coarse grey cloth, called serge, in which she is to pass the miserable remnant of her days.
Life in the Grey Nunnery at Montreal
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Hence the patriots of Malcy village had earmarked her for tonsure.
DISPLACED PERSON
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Devotees get their head tonsured and offer the hair to the Lord as fulfilment of a vow at Tirumala.
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Indiscreet and precarious tonsures have both dishonored the monachal habit and caused the name of Christ to be blasphemed.
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They had also brought both sons here to be tonsured for the first time, an important Hindu rite.
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A Benedictine like these his brothers, tonsured and habited, he stood erect in the dignity of his office and the humility and simplicity of his nature, as fragile as a child and as durable as a tree.
His Disposition
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Former Chinese actress and business celebrity Chen Xiaoxu has taken the tonsure at a Buddhist temple in Changchun, capital of Jilin province in northeast China, her husband told a newspaper Sunday.
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Trent, however, decreed that "it shall not henceforth be lawful for abbots, ... howsoever exempted, ... to confer the tonsure and minor orders on any but their regular subjects, nor shall the said abbots grant letters dimissory to any secular clerics to be ordained by others" [Can. et Decret.
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 1: Aachen-Assize
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Yet Jacques Daret had been tutored as a child and was a trained cleric who received his tonsure from the bishop of Cambrai in 1423.
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In 1943, he completed medical studies and secretly assumed monastic tonsure, receiving the name Anthony.
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Peter the Great greatly restricted access to monastic tonsure, thereby virtually barring the nobility from entering the black clergy.
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John Basil Meeking, Bishop Emeritus of Christchurch, NZ, with conferment of tonsure and minor orders on seminarians
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The young kneeling, tonsured figure on the right appears to be a high-ranking ecclesiastic - a canon or dean - whose biretta rests at Christ's bound feet.
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He was for all practical purposes bald, with just a ring of white, wispy hair circling his skull like an elderly monk's tonsure.
BLACK EAGLES
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Only in 1832 a Synodal ukaz legitimized the uncanonical under-age tonsure.
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Many, like Chen, were tonsured, making official an affiliation that, prior to the war, may have been only an intellectual inclination or a mark of status.
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In "Office of the Dead," for example, the hooded figures in the background are clearly separated from the tonsured clerics in the middle-ground, who in turn stand apart from the robed eminences in the foreground.
'Fashion In The Middle Ages' At The Getty Center, Los Angeles
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His own hair was balding naturally in the form of a tonsure.
THE GOLDEN LION
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Which might well be the case, seeing this man was undoubtedly tonsured, in authority here, and a priest.
His Disposition
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To avoid suspicion, he tonsured his head, shaved his beard and moustache and even trimmed his eyebrows.
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His dark hair lay cropped close to his head like a monk's tonsure and his small black eyes sat deep within their sockets like tiny pieces of coal buried in a lump of snow.
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It's survived in a very peculiar form, with the so-called monks are actually married and have their hair long, unlike in the South where they're tonsured, and they wear civilian clothes but with the robes just over the tops of them.
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He was for all practical purposes bald, with just a ring of white, wispy hair circling his skull like an elderly monk's tonsure.
BLACK EAGLES
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The monk's hair was tonsured and probably cropped to control lice.
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Buddhist monks shaved the heads of ceremony leaders, while many other Dalits arrived having already tonsured their heads.
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His cowl had fallen back, exposing his tonsure.
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A Benedictine like these his brothers, tonsured and habited, he stood erect in the dignity of his office and the humility and simplicity of his nature, as fragile as a child and as durable as a tree.
His Disposition
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His own hair was balding naturally in the form of a tonsure.
THE GOLDEN LION
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Tonsures and minor orders (the officiating prelate is H.E. Msgr. Basil Meeking, Bishop emeritus of Christchurch, New Zealand):
2009 Ordinations for the Institute of Christ the King
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My hair was long as it always had been; our order didn't endorse tonsures, thank God.
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The female gender doesn't like the fashion for phizog tonsure.
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tonsured monks
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I'd gathered Santa Fe was an extravagant, wide-open community, but even I was astonished at the amounts I saw change hands that night; the gamblers of Santa Fe, whether they were drunk traders, flash greasers, desperate immigrants, cold-eyed swells with pistols prominently displayed in their waistbands, or even the couple of tonsured priests who had an apparently bottomless satchel of coin and crossed themselves before every cast of the dice, were evidently no pikers.
Isabelle
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His young, handsome, tonsured head was exquisitely carved in stone.
The pope is coming. Liberals, be glad
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And if you want funny peculiar, simply gaze upon Thierry Boutsen's reverse-flip bird's-nest tonsure.
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Partibhan, who had tonsured his head for his forthcoming film, sported a cap.
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Nearly two dozen displaced Kashmiri Pandit tonsured their heads in New Delhi.www. scoopnews.in
Kashmiri Pandits observe September 14 as their Martyr���s Day after their exodus from their origin
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Whilst reading the papers before lunch with some friends, I was asked if I knew what it meant to be tonsured.
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Father Francisco was tonsured, wearing a thin line of hair around his otherwise bald head, while Antonio retained the silky curls Beatriz had always complained were wasted on him.
Crusade
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Early destined to the Church, he received the tonsure when he was only eight years old, and at the age of thirteen he obtained a canonicate in the cathedral of Metz.
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 2: Assizes-Browne
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His hairstyle also reminds me of a tonsure, and his monkish qualities include withdrawal from Earth and earthly delights; his commission and starship serve as a monastery.
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A man with a tonsure, much like the friars of old, poked his awkwardly shaped head out of the opening.
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Perhaps the guy has a heat sensor where his tonsure should be.
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It was short and neatly tonsured and he had a brown beard, finely trimmed to a point that just skimmed the deep rolled collar of his habit.
Sick Cycle Carousel
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In "Office of the Dead," for example, the hooded figures in the background are clearly separated from the tonsured clerics in the middle-ground, who in turn stand apart from the robed eminences in the foreground.
'Fashion In The Middle Ages' At The Getty Center, Los Angeles
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First the tonsure, then Minor Orders, then subdeaconship, then deaconship, then priesthood.
Baltimore Catechism No. 4 (of 4) An Explanation of the Baltimore Catechism of Christian Doctrine