Noun:

சமயச் சடங்குக்கான தலையை முழுவதுமோ (அ) பகுதியாகவோ மழித்தல்,

tonsure's Usage Examples:

In matters of ritual they agreed with the Western Church on the continent, save in a few particulars such as the precise time of keeping Easter and manner of tonsure.

He was deputed by a synod of the church in Wessex to remonstrate with the Britons of Domnonia (Devon and Cornwall) on their differences from the Roman practice in the shape of the tonsure and the date of Easter.

against all "tonsured" persons, supra); (d) Offences in regard to holy places - " brawling " and such like; (e) Heresy, schism, apostasy, witchcraft.

On his return to Spain, Moratin was tonsured and presented to a sinecure benefice in the diocese of Burgos, and in 1786 his first play, ET Viejo y la nina, was produced at the Teatro del Principe.

An indistinct allusion of his own has been taken to mean that he was tonsured in childhood at seven or nine years old; and tradition says that he was sent to the convent of Seuilly.

In January 1671 we hear of him as in attendance upon the tsar on the occasion of his second marriage; but in February the same year he was dismissed, and withdrew to the Kruipetsky monastery near Kiev, where he took the tonsure under the name of Antony, and occupied himself with good works till his death in 1680.

Destined from his birth for the church, he received the tonsure at the age of seven and was soon loaded with rich benefices and preferments.

33 of the Quinisext council (692) requires even singers and readers to be tonsured.

They had to be clerics, that is, to have received the tonsure.

672680 Unrelated to his predecessor and elected by the nobleswas de posed and tonsured.

The Roman or St Peter's tonsure prevailed in France, Spain and Italy.

St Patrick doubtless introduced the ordinary coronal tonsure, but in the period following his death the old druidical tonsure was again revived.

Synonyms:

poll, pate, crown,

Antonyms:

mark up, uncover, divest,