(n.) A man shaved; hence, a monk, or other religious; -- used in contempt.
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Tonsure
Definition:
(n.) The act of clipping the hair, or of shaving the crown of the head; also, the state of being shorn.
(n.) The first ceremony used for devoting a person to the service of God and the church; the first degree of the clericate, given by a bishop, abbot, or cardinal priest, consisting in cutting off the hair from a circular space at the back of the head, with prayers and benedictions; hence, entrance or admission into minor orders.
(n.) The shaven corona, or crown, which priests wear as a mark of their order and of their rank.
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(1) They sat me in a chair and just shaved most of my hair off in weird concentric rings so I looked like a tonsured 14th-century monk who had had brain surgery.
(2) Kearns, 26, performs his eccentric show in a monk's tonsure wig and Dick Emery-style protruding false teeth.
(3) This 'tonsure' effect presents a major obstacle to the use of surface electrodes for intrapartum blood gas monitoring from the fetal scalp in clinical obstetrics.
(4) Amongst the surgical procedures for the treatment of baldness, tonsure reduction occupies a very important place due to the quality and the rapidity of the results obtained and the safety of the technique.
(5) This study confirms that the tonsure effect usually does not interfere with tc-Pco2 monitoring.
(6) New facts about his first teacher, Jean-Pierre Gorsse, indicate that he, too, was a student of the Doctrinaires and that a benefice requiring the tonsure passed to Pinel when Gorsse married in 1759.
(7) We present three cases of trichotillomania demonstrating the "tonsure pattern" or "Friar Tuck sign" and onychophagia (nail-biting), which we describe as clinical identifying features of this syndrome.
(8) The entire procedure is particularly suitable for tonsure baldness in men and even in the skull-cap type of androgenic alopecia in women.