| A man with a tonsure, much like the friars of old, poked his awkwardly shaped head out of the opening. |
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| At that time Nimmyo's mother, Dowager Empress Saga, took the tonsure and entered a temple. |
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| In 1943, he completed medical studies and secretly assumed monastic tonsure, receiving the name Anthony. |
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| Peter the Great greatly restricted access to monastic tonsure, thereby virtually barring the nobility from entering the black clergy. |
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| I claim there would be a statistically significant increase in the number of teenagers sporting a tonsure! |
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| He did secondary studies with the Jesuits in Douai, received the tonsure and studied theology. |
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| The female gender doesn't like the fashion for phizog tonsure. |
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| Constantine himself escaped to Scotland, where in old age he resigned the crown for the tonsure and became abbot of the Culdees of St. Andrews. |
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| From time to time if you tonsure, you don't feel that a part of your body is removed. |
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| Only in 1832 a Synodal ukaz legitimized the uncanonical under-age tonsure. |
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| His dark hair lay cropped close to his head like a monk's tonsure and his small black eyes sat deep within their sockets like tiny pieces of coal buried in a lump of snow. |
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| Earlier depictions are more likely to show a monastic tonsure and plainer dress. |
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| Because of the rotation of the Earth, the stream turns right as the planet spins, and flows in a wavy line around the pole, like a badly cut monk's tonsure. |
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| In Tibet and China a probationary period of study is required before the candidate becomes a novice, during which he does not receive tonsure and is not exempt from military service. |
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| He was a cleric who had received the tonsure in order to get the revenues of an ecclesiastical benefice, in this case that of an abbey or priory, Saint-Calais. |
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| Other distinguishing characteristics were its calculation of the date of Easter and the style of the tonsure haircut that clerics wore. |
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| The Synod of Whitby established the Roman date for Easter and the Roman style of monastic tonsure in England. |
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| The tonsure differed from that elsewhere and also became a point of contention. |
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| At any rate, it is unlikely to have caused as much discord as the Easter controversy or the tonsure, as no other source mentions it. |
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| Bishops are almost always chosen from among monks, and those who are not generally receive the monastic tonsure before their consecrations. |
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| By age 12, he was employed by the bishop as a clerk and received the tonsure, cutting his hair to symbolise his dedication to the Church. |
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| The exact shape of the Irish tonsure is unclear from the early sources, although they agree that the hair was in some way shorn over the head from ear to ear. |
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| Those preferring the Roman tonsure considered the Celtic custom extremely unorthodox, and associated it with the form of tonsure worn by the heresiarch Simon Magus. |
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| The early material referring to the Celtic tonsure emphasises its distinctiveness from the Roman alternative and invariably connects its use to the Celtic dating of Easter. |
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| All monks of the period, and apparently most or all clergy, kept a distinct tonsure, or method of cutting one's hair, to distinguish their social identity as men of the cloth. |
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| Stephen says that Annemund gave Wilfrid a clerical tonsure, although this does not appear to mean that he became a monk, merely that he entered the clergy. |
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