Noun:

మున్ది,

tonsure's Usage Examples:

novitiate is officially set at three years before one may be tonsured a monk or nun, though this requirement may be waived.

"Poorna tonsures head for Kodi Veeran".

seven penitential psalms were assigned to new clerics after having been tonsured.

the Anglicized form of the Gaelic Cill-Maolan (Church of the little tonsured one.

He graduated from the Patriarchal School, and was tonsured a monk in 1958 and ordained to the diaconate the following year.

Genshin took tonsure with the Tendai sect of Buddhism as a child at Enryakuji Temple, though the reasons are unknown.

When the father dies, his first-born son tonsures his head and when the mother dies the second son tonsure his head.

She will then receive the apostolnik at her tonsure.

tonsure, had to allow his hair to grow for four months before he could be tonsured after the Roman fashion, and then ordained Archbishop of Canterbury by.

This was the first order a seminarian was admitted to after receiving the tonsure.

Hoyaux, "Reges criniti: chevelures, tonsures et scalps chez les Mérovingiens", Revue belge de philologie et d"histoire.

There were reports that some of the clerics were scalped, possibly in scorn of the clergy and their tonsures, according to Wood.

Synonyms:

poll, pate, crown,

Antonyms:

mark up, uncover, divest,