Definition of tonsure in English:

tonsure

noun ˈtɒnʃəˈtɑn(t)ʃər

1A part of a monk's or priest's head left bare on top by shaving off the hair.
僧侣（或教士）头顶剃光部分
his hair is thinning up there—soon he'll have a tonsure like a monk's
Example sentencesExamples
- His hairstyle also reminds me of a tonsure, and his monkish qualities include withdrawal from Earth and earthly delights; his commission and starship serve as a monastery.
- In 1943, he completed medical studies and secretly assumed monastic tonsure, receiving the name Anthony.
- His dark hair lay cropped close to his head like a monk's tonsure and his small black eyes sat deep within their sockets like tiny pieces of coal buried in a lump of snow.
- His cowl had fallen back, exposing his tonsure.
- My hair was long as it always had been; our order didn't endorse tonsures, thank God.
- One of the disputed matters might seem absurd to us now: it was the form of the tonsure, the way in which monks shaved the tops of their heads.
- Peter the Great greatly restricted access to monastic tonsure, thereby virtually barring the nobility from entering the black clergy.
1. 1.1in singular An act of shaving the top of a monk's or priest's head as a preparation for entering a religious order.
  僧侣（或教士）削发，削发仪式
  he received the tonsure
  Example sentencesExamples
  Yet Jacques Daret had been tutored as a child and was a trained cleric who received his tonsure from the bishop of Cambrai in 1423.
  At that time Nimmyo's mother, Dowager Empress Saga, took the tonsure and entered a temple.

verbˈtɒnʃəˈtɑn(t)ʃər

[with object]often as adjective tonsured

Give a tonsure to.
Louis's half-brothers were tonsured and sent away to monasteries
Example sentencesExamples
- The young kneeling, tonsured figure on the right appears to be a high-ranking ecclesiastic - a canon or dean - whose biretta rests at Christ's bound feet.
- Devotees get their head tonsured and offer the hair to the Lord as fulfilment of a vow at Tirumala.
- A tonsured man in red appeared in the open doorway, offering us each a glass of red wine.
- The second presents Augustine as a tonsured monk in an austere cell, working with a quill on a small book.
- Many, like Chen, were tonsured, making official an affiliation that, prior to the war, may have been only an intellectual inclination or a mark of status.
- The monk's hair was tonsured and probably cropped to control lice.
- They had also brought both sons here to be tonsured for the first time, an important Hindu rite.
- To avoid suspicion, he tonsured his head, shaved his beard and moustache and even trimmed his eyebrows.
- It's survived in a very peculiar form, with the so-called monks are actually married and have their hair long, unlike in the South where they're tonsured, and they wear civilian clothes but with the robes just over the tops of them.
- Peruse any illustrated Inferno, and you will find, among the pictured thieves, usurers, murderers, and traitors, numerous tonsured pates, episcopal miters, and papal tiaras.
- His name appears beside the picture of a tonsured cleric, twice in a book of hours.
- Whilst reading the papers before lunch with some friends, I was asked if I knew what it meant to be tonsured.
- Partibhan, who had tonsured his head for his forthcoming film, sported a cap.
- The unsubmerged halves of the smooth stones at the water's edge - covered with patches of dark moss - looked like the tonsured heads of drowned monks.
- Buddhist monks shaved the heads of ceremony leaders, while many other Dalits arrived having already tonsured their heads.
- The essentially Byzantine profile of the woman on the left and the tonsured cleric on the far right act in effect as the donors of a Renaissance altarpiece, linking the viewer and the real world to that of sacred unreality.
Synonyms
cut short, cut, clip, trim, snip, shear, shave

Origin

Late Middle English: from Old French, or from Latin tonsura, from tondere 'shear, clip'.

Definition of tonsure in US English:

tonsure

nounˈtɑn(t)ʃərˈtän(t)SHər

1A part of a monk's or priest's head left bare on top by shaving off the hair.
僧侣（或教士）头顶剃光部分
his hair is thinning up there—soon he'll have a tonsure like a monk's
Example sentencesExamples
- My hair was long as it always had been; our order didn't endorse tonsures, thank God.
- His hairstyle also reminds me of a tonsure, and his monkish qualities include withdrawal from Earth and earthly delights; his commission and starship serve as a monastery.
- His cowl had fallen back, exposing his tonsure.
- His dark hair lay cropped close to his head like a monk's tonsure and his small black eyes sat deep within their sockets like tiny pieces of coal buried in a lump of snow.
- Peter the Great greatly restricted access to monastic tonsure, thereby virtually barring the nobility from entering the black clergy.
- In 1943, he completed medical studies and secretly assumed monastic tonsure, receiving the name Anthony.
- One of the disputed matters might seem absurd to us now: it was the form of the tonsure, the way in which monks shaved the tops of their heads.
1. 1.1in singular An act of shaving the top of a monk's or priest's head as a preparation for entering a religious order.
  僧侣（或教士）削发，削发仪式
  he received the tonsure
  Example sentencesExamples
  At that time Nimmyo's mother, Dowager Empress Saga, took the tonsure and entered a temple.
  Yet Jacques Daret had been tutored as a child and was a trained cleric who received his tonsure from the bishop of Cambrai in 1423.

verbˈtɑn(t)ʃərˈtän(t)SHər

[with object]often as adjective tonsured

Shave the hair on the crown of.
削头顶的发
Louis's half-brothers were tonsured and sent away to monasteries
Example sentencesExamples
- It's survived in a very peculiar form, with the so-called monks are actually married and have their hair long, unlike in the South where they're tonsured, and they wear civilian clothes but with the robes just over the tops of them.
- The unsubmerged halves of the smooth stones at the water's edge - covered with patches of dark moss - looked like the tonsured heads of drowned monks.
- To avoid suspicion, he tonsured his head, shaved his beard and moustache and even trimmed his eyebrows.
- Peruse any illustrated Inferno, and you will find, among the pictured thieves, usurers, murderers, and traitors, numerous tonsured pates, episcopal miters, and papal tiaras.
- The second presents Augustine as a tonsured monk in an austere cell, working with a quill on a small book.
- Partibhan, who had tonsured his head for his forthcoming film, sported a cap.
- Whilst reading the papers before lunch with some friends, I was asked if I knew what it meant to be tonsured.
- His name appears beside the picture of a tonsured cleric, twice in a book of hours.
- They had also brought both sons here to be tonsured for the first time, an important Hindu rite.
- Devotees get their head tonsured and offer the hair to the Lord as fulfilment of a vow at Tirumala.
- A tonsured man in red appeared in the open doorway, offering us each a glass of red wine.
- Many, like Chen, were tonsured, making official an affiliation that, prior to the war, may have been only an intellectual inclination or a mark of status.
- Buddhist monks shaved the heads of ceremony leaders, while many other Dalits arrived having already tonsured their heads.
- The young kneeling, tonsured figure on the right appears to be a high-ranking ecclesiastic - a canon or dean - whose biretta rests at Christ's bound feet.
- The monk's hair was tonsured and probably cropped to control lice.
- The essentially Byzantine profile of the woman on the left and the tonsured cleric on the far right act in effect as the donors of a Renaissance altarpiece, linking the viewer and the real world to that of sacred unreality.
Synonyms
cut short, cut, clip, trim, snip, shear, shave

Origin

Late Middle English: from Old French, or from Latin tonsura, from tondere ‘shear, clip’.

词汇	tonsure
释义	Definition of tonsure in English: tonsure noun ˈtɒnʃəˈtɑn(t)ʃər 1A part of a monk's or priest's head left bare on top by shaving off the hair. 僧侣（或教士）头顶剃光部分 his hair is thinning up there—soon he'll have a tonsure like a monk's Example sentencesExamples His hairstyle also reminds me of a tonsure, and his monkish qualities include withdrawal from Earth and earthly delights; his commission and starship serve as a monastery. In 1943, he completed medical studies and secretly assumed monastic tonsure, receiving the name Anthony. His dark hair lay cropped close to his head like a monk's tonsure and his small black eyes sat deep within their sockets like tiny pieces of coal buried in a lump of snow. His cowl had fallen back, exposing his tonsure. My hair was long as it always had been; our order didn't endorse tonsures, thank God. One of the disputed matters might seem absurd to us now: it was the form of the tonsure, the way in which monks shaved the tops of their heads. Peter the Great greatly restricted access to monastic tonsure, thereby virtually barring the nobility from entering the black clergy. 1.1in singular An act of shaving the top of a monk's or priest's head as a preparation for entering a religious order. 僧侣（或教士）削发，削发仪式 he received the tonsure Example sentencesExamples Yet Jacques Daret had been tutored as a child and was a trained cleric who received his tonsure from the bishop of Cambrai in 1423. At that time Nimmyo's mother, Dowager Empress Saga, took the tonsure and entered a temple. verbˈtɒnʃəˈtɑn(t)ʃər [with object]often as adjective tonsured Give a tonsure to. Louis's half-brothers were tonsured and sent away to monasteries Example sentencesExamples The young kneeling, tonsured figure on the right appears to be a high-ranking ecclesiastic - a canon or dean - whose biretta rests at Christ's bound feet. Devotees get their head tonsured and offer the hair to the Lord as fulfilment of a vow at Tirumala. A tonsured man in red appeared in the open doorway, offering us each a glass of red wine. The second presents Augustine as a tonsured monk in an austere cell, working with a quill on a small book. Many, like Chen, were tonsured, making official an affiliation that, prior to the war, may have been only an intellectual inclination or a mark of status. The monk's hair was tonsured and probably cropped to control lice. They had also brought both sons here to be tonsured for the first time, an important Hindu rite. To avoid suspicion, he tonsured his head, shaved his beard and moustache and even trimmed his eyebrows. It's survived in a very peculiar form, with the so-called monks are actually married and have their hair long, unlike in the South where they're tonsured, and they wear civilian clothes but with the robes just over the tops of them. Peruse any illustrated Inferno, and you will find, among the pictured thieves, usurers, murderers, and traitors, numerous tonsured pates, episcopal miters, and papal tiaras. His name appears beside the picture of a tonsured cleric, twice in a book of hours. Whilst reading the papers before lunch with some friends, I was asked if I knew what it meant to be tonsured. Partibhan, who had tonsured his head for his forthcoming film, sported a cap. The unsubmerged halves of the smooth stones at the water's edge - covered with patches of dark moss - looked like the tonsured heads of drowned monks. Buddhist monks shaved the heads of ceremony leaders, while many other Dalits arrived having already tonsured their heads. The essentially Byzantine profile of the woman on the left and the tonsured cleric on the far right act in effect as the donors of a Renaissance altarpiece, linking the viewer and the real world to that of sacred unreality. Synonyms cut short, cut, clip, trim, snip, shear, shave Origin Late Middle English: from Old French, or from Latin tonsura, from tondere 'shear, clip'. Definition of tonsure in US English: tonsure nounˈtɑn(t)ʃərˈtän(t)SHər 1A part of a monk's or priest's head left bare on top by shaving off the hair. 僧侣（或教士）头顶剃光部分 his hair is thinning up there—soon he'll have a tonsure like a monk's Example sentencesExamples My hair was long as it always had been; our order didn't endorse tonsures, thank God. His hairstyle also reminds me of a tonsure, and his monkish qualities include withdrawal from Earth and earthly delights; his commission and starship serve as a monastery. His cowl had fallen back, exposing his tonsure. His dark hair lay cropped close to his head like a monk's tonsure and his small black eyes sat deep within their sockets like tiny pieces of coal buried in a lump of snow. Peter the Great greatly restricted access to monastic tonsure, thereby virtually barring the nobility from entering the black clergy. In 1943, he completed medical studies and secretly assumed monastic tonsure, receiving the name Anthony. One of the disputed matters might seem absurd to us now: it was the form of the tonsure, the way in which monks shaved the tops of their heads. 1.1in singular An act of shaving the top of a monk's or priest's head as a preparation for entering a religious order. 僧侣（或教士）削发，削发仪式 he received the tonsure Example sentencesExamples At that time Nimmyo's mother, Dowager Empress Saga, took the tonsure and entered a temple. Yet Jacques Daret had been tutored as a child and was a trained cleric who received his tonsure from the bishop of Cambrai in 1423. verbˈtɑn(t)ʃərˈtän(t)SHər [with object]often as adjective tonsured Shave the hair on the crown of. 削头顶的发 Louis's half-brothers were tonsured and sent away to monasteries Example sentencesExamples It's survived in a very peculiar form, with the so-called monks are actually married and have their hair long, unlike in the South where they're tonsured, and they wear civilian clothes but with the robes just over the tops of them. The unsubmerged halves of the smooth stones at the water's edge - covered with patches of dark moss - looked like the tonsured heads of drowned monks. To avoid suspicion, he tonsured his head, shaved his beard and moustache and even trimmed his eyebrows. Peruse any illustrated Inferno, and you will find, among the pictured thieves, usurers, murderers, and traitors, numerous tonsured pates, episcopal miters, and papal tiaras. The second presents Augustine as a tonsured monk in an austere cell, working with a quill on a small book. Partibhan, who had tonsured his head for his forthcoming film, sported a cap. Whilst reading the papers before lunch with some friends, I was asked if I knew what it meant to be tonsured. His name appears beside the picture of a tonsured cleric, twice in a book of hours. They had also brought both sons here to be tonsured for the first time, an important Hindu rite. Devotees get their head tonsured and offer the hair to the Lord as fulfilment of a vow at Tirumala. A tonsured man in red appeared in the open doorway, offering us each a glass of red wine. Many, like Chen, were tonsured, making official an affiliation that, prior to the war, may have been only an intellectual inclination or a mark of status. Buddhist monks shaved the heads of ceremony leaders, while many other Dalits arrived having already tonsured their heads. The young kneeling, tonsured figure on the right appears to be a high-ranking ecclesiastic - a canon or dean - whose biretta rests at Christ's bound feet. The monk's hair was tonsured and probably cropped to control lice. The essentially Byzantine profile of the woman on the left and the tonsured cleric on the far right act in effect as the donors of a Renaissance altarpiece, linking the viewer and the real world to that of sacred unreality. Synonyms cut short, cut, clip, trim, snip, shear, shave Origin Late Middle English: from Old French, or from Latin tonsura, from tondere ‘shear, clip’.
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