tonsure 的 2 个定义
- 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.
ton·sured, ton·sur·ing.
- to confer the ecclesiastical tonsure upon.
- to subject to tonsure.
更多tonsure例句
- 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.