The Christian practice of shaving the top of the head so as to create a crown of hair.
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Here he was accepted, and in a short time received the tonsure.
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Yawning, he scratched his unruly tonsure back into place as he listened.
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I shaved my head, so that the tonsure was no longer visible.
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This is no shameless priest, like so many that disgrace the tonsure.
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Apollyon had a just discernible tonsure, but probably no right to it.
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First the tonsure, then Minor Orders, then subdeaconship, then deaconship, then priesthood.
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We have as much to fear from the tonsure as from the hauberk.
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He resolved to eliminate the tonsure and dress in citizens' clothes.
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He also disposed of his benefices, which were only held by simple tonsure.
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Although he was an archbishop he had only the first tonsure.
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NOTE 2.-Thisfashion of tonsure is mentioned by Barbaro and Chardin.
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But the tonsure had then been very small, hardly larger than a penny.
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If I dared imagine that I should be less insupportable with a tonsure-
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Bran regarded the man's disgraceful robe, bare feet, ragged tonsure, and untidy beard.
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This he opened, and discovered the false tonsure and friar's gown.
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His black hair was trimmed short and his tonsure newly shaved.
