Usage of "receive the tonsure"

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Usage of receive the tonsure in English

Then he commanded that they should receive the tonsure, and, although not ordained, be considered clerks. 
 The House of Walderne / A Tale of the Cloister and the Forest in... 

Here he was accepted, and in a short time received the tonsure. 
 Bell's Cathedrals: The Cathedral Church of Carlisle / A Descript... 

So Photinius received the tonsure and the dignity, and made a very tolerable Abbot. 
 The Twilight of the Gods, and Other Tales 

His hair was very sparse; he looked, indeed, like one who has received the tonsure. 
 The Nether World 

She therefore went into a convent; and he received the tonsure, and was in due time made Bishop of Auxerre. 
 Helbeck of Bannisdale — Volume II 

This year Eadbert, king of the Northumbrians, received the tonsure, and his son Osulf the kingdom; which he held one year. 
 The Anglo-Saxon Chronicle 

At the end of the third year he received the tonsure and was ordained to the priesthood by the name of Sergius. 
 Father Sergius 

No matter how or why it was done, no man who had received the tonsure could ever again sit upon the Gothic throne. 
 Historic Tales: The Romance of Reality. Vol. 07 (of 15), Spanish 

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Meanings of receive the tonsure in English