What's the difference between tonsure and tonsured?

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.

Example Sentences:

  • (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.

Tonsured


Definition:

  • (a.) Having the tonsure; shaven; shorn; clipped; hence, bald.

Example Sentences:

  • (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.

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