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单词 to shave a monk, canon, priest, friar
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to 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.
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society > faith > worship > cleanness (ceremonial) > tonsure > perform tonsure [verb (transitive)]
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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.
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