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tonsured

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

受训者,受过训练的人,受训人员,受过训练的

Definitions

n.名词 noun
  1. 1
    • : 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
  1. 1

    ton·sured, ton·sur·ing.

    • : to confer the ecclesiastical tonsure upon.
    • : to subject to tonsure.

Synonyms & Antonyms

Examples

  • 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.