Noun:

মস্তকমুণ্ডন, কেশকর্তন,

tonsure's Usage Examples:

The profession of monastics is known as tonsure (referring to the ritual cutting of the monastic's hair which takes place.

distinctive system for determining the dating of Easter, a style of monastic tonsure, a unique system of penance, and the popularity of going into "exile for.

She will then receive the apostolnik at her tonsure.

hieromonk who performs a tonsure must be of at least the rank he is tonsuring into.

In other words, only a hieromonk who has been tonsured into the Great Schema.

tonsure), is the eighth of the sixteen Hindu saṃskāras (sacraments), in which a.

Friar Isidore is an honest-to-god monk, with a tonsure and everything.

been ordained to the priesthood or a priest who has received monastic tonsure.

corresponding to the tonsure.

In the religious orders, the tonsure very early interposed an obstacle to hairstyles, but the tonsure itself was the occasion.

candidate is tonsured as a sign of his submission and obedience upon entry into the clerical state.

The tonsure is performed.

This distinctive tonsure is described in Gaelic as 'Mhaoillan'.

The name MacMillan thus literally means, "son of the tonsure".

after becoming cardinals, since they were all given what was called first tonsure, which at that time made them clerics and no longer laymen.

the minor orders and tonsure in 1972 by Paul VI, the seven penitential psalms were assigned to new clerics after having been tonsured.

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

The royal tonsure, or topknot-cutting ceremony is an ancient ritual that marks the coming.

In the same year of Emperor Rokujō's abdication, Fujiwara took tonsure as a Buddhist nun.

baldness in which the baldness is limited to the vertex, resembling a tonsure.

Joan of Arc) fighting battles, wearing men's clothing, or receiving the tonsure.

The sokan ceremony (Thai: พระราชพิธีโสกันต์), often translated as royal tonsure ceremony, was an important royal practice in Siam (now Thailand).

1917 Code of Canon Law laid down that nobody was to be given clerical tonsure, which had to be received before minor orders, before beginning the regular.

Synonyms:

poll; pate; crown;

Antonyms:

mark up; uncover; divest;