单词 | tonsure |
释义 | tonsuren. 1. gen. The action or process of clipping the hair or shaving the head; the state of being shorn. ΘΚΠ the mind > attention and judgement > beautification > beautification of the person > beautification of the hair > [noun] > cutting or shaving dodding?c1225 shearingc1315 shaving138. tonsure1390 pollinga1400 clippingc1440 rasure1483 barbing1485 trimmingc1525 colling1575 tonsuring1811 detonsure1819 pogonotomy1896 poodling1907 razor cutting1952 the mind > attention and judgement > beautification > beautification of the person > beautification of the hair > styles of hair > [noun] > cut or cropped roundinga1582 stumps1584 stubs1607 trim1608 tonsure1650 committee cut1691 rasure1737 crop1795 county crop1839 flat-top1859 prison cropc1863 clip1889 Dartmoor crop1930 razor cut1940 prison haircut1948 scissor cut1948 cut1951 pudding basin1951 short back and sides1965 1390 J. Gower Confessio Amantis III. 291 For unlust of that aventure Ther was noman which tok tonsure. 1616 J. Bullokar Eng. Expositor Tonsure, a clipping or cutting of the haire. 1650 J. Bulwer Anthropometamorphosis ii. 56 We..reduce our Tonsure to a just moderation and decency. 1770 J. Langhorne & W. Langhorne tr. Plutarch Lives (1851) I. 3/1 This kind of tonsure, on his account was called Theseis. 1876 C. M. Davies Unorthodox London (rev. ed.) 183 The ‘county crop’—that species of tonsure which all had undergone. 2. a. spec. The shaving of the head or part of it as a religious practice or rite, esp. as a preparation to entering the priesthood or a monastic order.In the Eastern Church the whole head is shaven ( tonsure of St. Paul); in the Roman Church either a circular patch on the crown, as in secular priests, or the whole upper part of the head so as to leave only a fringe or circle of hair, as in some monastic orders and friars ( tonsure of St. Peter); in the ancient Celtic Church the tonsure ‘consisted in shaving the head in front of a line drawn from ear to ear’ ( tonsure of St. John). A form of tonsure was also practised by the priests of Isis. ΘΚΠ society > faith > worship > cleanness (ceremonial) > tonsure > [noun] tonsurea1387 rasure1483 rounding1551 shaving1647 a1387 J. Trevisa tr. R. Higden Polychron. (St. John's Cambr.) (1876) VI. 167 He took tonsure and habit of clerk, þe ȝere of his age foure and twenty. ?c1450 Life St. Cuthbert (1891) l. 1366 And gaf him tonsour and habite. 1530 J. Palsgrave Lesclarcissement 183 Les ordres..benet the first tonsure. 1655 T. Fuller Church-hist. Brit. ii. 87 No mention herein of settling the Tonsure of Priests..according to the Roman Rite. 1737 R. Challoner Catholick Christian Instructed xv. 153 The Clerical Tonsure,..is not properly an Order, but only a Preparation for Orders. The Bishop cuts off the Extremities of their Hair, to signify their renouncing the World and its Vanities; and he revests them with a Surplice, and so receives them into the Clergy. 1829 J. Donovan tr. Catech. Council Trent ii. vii. §14 In tonsure the hair of the head is cut in form of a crown, and should always be worn in that form, enlarging the crown as one advances in orders. 1842 W. F. Hook Church Dict. 558 A clerical tonsure was made necessary about the 5th or 6th century. 1846 S. Sharpe Hist. Egypt xiv. 431 In Rome he was very partial to the Egyptian superstitions, and he had adopted the tonsure, and had his head shaven like a priest of Isis. 1849 D. Rock Church our Fathers I. i. ii. 186 Of the ecclesiastical tonsure..the Roman form was perfectly round; the Irish was made by cutting away the hair from the upper part of the forehead in the figure of a half-moon, with the convex side before. b. The part of a priest's or monk's head left bare by shaving the hair. ΘΚΠ society > faith > worship > cleanness (ceremonial) > tonsure > [noun] > instance of Christ's marka1225 crownc1275 crowningc1400 tonsure1430 corona1882 1351–2 Rolls of Parl. II. 244/2 Gentz de Religion portantz tonsure.] 1430–40 J. Lydgate tr. Bochas Fall of Princes (Bodl. 263) ix. xiv. lf. 418/2 As a prest she [Joan] had a brod tonsure. a1625 H. Finch Law (1636) 65 But if he shew cause which our law alloweth not (as because hee hath not his tonsure, or ornamentum Clericale, &c.) he shall pay a fine, and yet be driuen to take the felon. 1768 L. Sterne Sentimental Journey I. 10 The monk, as I judged from the break in his tonsure,..might be about seventy. 1849 G. P. R. James Woodman I. xiii. 289 You must cover the tonsure with this peasant's bonnet. ΘΚΠ society > trade and finance > money > mutilating coin > [noun] clippingc1440 washinga1513 rounding1562 money clipping1570 tonsure1621 sweating1785 the world > food and drink > farming > gardening > management of plants > [noun] > training > topiary topiaria1599 tonsure1621 topiary1908 1621 R. Bolton Statutes Ireland 12 (Act 25 Hen. VI) Ireland is greatly impoverished..by the..carriage..into England of the silver plate, broken silver Bullion and wedges of silver made of the great Tonsure of the money. 1691 in Archaeologia (1796) 12 185 His yew hedges with trees of the same..kept in pretty shapes with tonsure. 1691 in Archaeologia (1796) 12 186 A fair gravel walk betwixt two yew hedges with rounds and spires of the same, all under smooth tonsure. Compounds attributive and in other combinations, as tonsure-cap, tonsure-plate (see quot.). ΘΚΠ society > faith > artefacts > vestments > headgear > [noun] > tonsure-cap tonsure-cap1889 1889 Pall Mall Gaz. 23 July 2/1 His rank..distinguished by the scarlet sash which he wears..and by his tonsure-cap, which is of the same colour. 1891 Cent. Dict. Tonsure-plate, a round thin plate slightly convex so as to fit the top of the head, used to mark the line of the tonsure according to the Roman rite. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1913; most recently modified version published online December 2021). tonsurev. a. transitive. To clip or shave the hair of; to confer the ecclesiastical tonsure upon. ΘΚΠ the mind > attention and judgement > beautification > beautification of the person > beautification of the hair > beautify (the hair) [verb (transitive)] > cut shearc897 shavec1320 topc1330 dockc1386 clipc1405 pollc1450 roundc1450 coll1483 cow?1507 not1530 trim1530 tonse1555 benotte1594 decurtate1599 scissora1625 to set upa1625 tonsure1793 the mind > attention and judgement > beautification > beautification of the person > beautification of the hair > beautify (the hair) [verb (transitive)] > shave shearc897 shave?c1225 strikec1275 razec1460 mow1647 scrapea1774 razora1783 tonsure1793 stubble1836 society > faith > worship > cleanness (ceremonial) > tonsure > perform tonsure [verb (transitive)] sheara950 crownc1300 shavea1400 tonsure1843 1793 Minstrel I. 90 I must tonsure those fine tresses to the due form. 1843 T. Carlyle Past & Present ii. xiv. 144 Now tonsured into a mournful penitent Monk. 1872 O. Shipley Gloss. Eccl. Terms 459 The Greeks tonsured their whole heads, like St. James and the other Apostles. 1878 Maclear Celts (1879) viii. 123 They..were tonsured from ear to ear,—that is, the fore part of the head was made bare, and the hair was allowed to grow only on the back part of the head. b. figurative. To make bald-headed. ΘΚΠ the world > life > the body > hair > hair of head > [verb (transitive)] > make bald-headed tonsure1876 1876 W. B. Scott Sonn. 9 And now that age hath shriven and tonsured me. Derivatives ˈtonsuring n. and adj. ΘΚΠ the mind > attention and judgement > beautification > beautification of the person > beautification of the hair > [noun] > cutting or shaving dodding?c1225 shearingc1315 shaving138. tonsure1390 pollinga1400 clippingc1440 rasure1483 barbing1485 trimmingc1525 colling1575 tonsuring1811 detonsure1819 pogonotomy1896 poodling1907 razor cutting1952 1811 Henry & Isabella I. 3 He manifested a sufficient genius at the tonsuring business. 1906 Reader 24 Nov. 123/2 He..gladly followed her advice to remedy with a curled scalp the ‘tonsuring action of middle age’. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1913; most recently modified version published online June 2019). < n.a1387v.1793 |
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