单词 | to shave a monk, canon, priest, friar |
释义 | > as lemmasto shave (a person) a monk, canon, priest, friar b. esp. To tonsure as a cleric. †Frequently with complement, to shave (a person) a monk, canon, priest, friar; also, to make (a ‘crown’) by shaving. ΘΚΠ society > faith > worship > cleanness (ceremonial) > tonsure > perform tonsure [verb (transitive)] sheara950 crownc1300 shavea1400 tonsure1843 a1400–50 Wars Alex. 121 He..Clede him all as a clerke & his croune shauys. c1400 The Brut lxvii. 63 This traitoure..put oppon him an habite of religioun and lete shaue him a brode crone. 1430–40 J. Lydgate tr. Bochas Fall of Princes (1554) viii. xix. 189 b Constance..forthwith anon Was shaue a Monke. 1481 W. Caxton tr. Hist. Reynard Fox (1970) 18 Were be ye a monke or an abbot he that shoef your crowne, hath nyped of your eeris. c1540 J. Bellenden tr. H. Boece Hyst. & Cron. Scotl. ix. i. f. 155/2 He past to ye abbay of sanct Andros, & schuyf h[y]m thair ane chanoun. 1616 R. Cocks Diary (1883) I. 164 Calsa Same was..to goe to a church neare Miaco..to be shaved a prist. a1691 Sir D. North in H. Roscoe North's Lives (1826) II. 312 Who will, may shave himself a friar. 1854 H. H. Milman Hist. Lat. Christianity II. iv. viii. 189 Irene..seized, scourged, shaved into ecclesiastics..the chief of her son's adherents. < as lemmas |
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