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Definition of Tonsured
1. Adjective. Having a bald spot either shaved or natural. "Tonsured monks"
Definition of Tonsured
1. a. Having the tonsure; shaven; shorn; clipped; hence, bald.
Definition of Tonsured
1. Verb. (past of tonsure) ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Tonsured
1. tonsure [v] - See also: tonsure
Lexicographical Neighbors of Tonsured
Literary usage of Tonsured
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Catholic Encyclopedia: An International Work of Reference on the by Charles George Herbermann (1913)
"... still only a tonsured cleric, was received as superior-general, and the name
Fathers of the Sacred Heart was changed to that of Fathers of the Faith. ..."
2. The Anglo-Saxon Church: Its History, Revenues, and General Character by Henry Soames (1838)
"He was, accordingly, tonsured, and admitted into inferior orders, with full
approbation of his parents. He then retired to his favourite Glastonbury, ..."
3. Carmina Gadelica: Hymns and Incantations with Illustrative Notes on Words by Alexander Carmichael, James Carmichael Watson, Angus Matheson (1900)
"... means 'the tonsured of the Lord,' ... the tonsured of Patrick, ... the tonsured
of Jesus,' is the Malise and ..."
4. The New Werner Twentieth Century Edition of the Encyclopaedia Britannica: A (1907)
"... changed his father's plane, and the child (who had been tonsured in 1635 Ъу
way of precaution against such a contingency) was at once put in possession ..."
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