Out from the church door comes the tonsured priest; he shakes his head, shrugs his shoulders, and makes his way down to where the great Almagro stands, a commanding figure amid the confusion.
Black gowns, tonsured heads, and beads and rosaries are seen everywhere, and the padre is usually the most influential man in the town.
Again it was Anthony of Padua in monk's cowl, barefooted, with tonsured head, a lighted torch in his hand.
He was a young rake in Paris, tonsured for the sake of the family benefices, who had for mistress no less a lady than the Duchess de Rohan-Montbazon.
Patrick preached to him and baptized him and tonsured him, and gave him a Gospel and Mass-chalice.
Do you deny that your being here is a menace to Miss Clairville's peace and that you--you a frocked and tonsured priest--have addressed words of love to her?
He would be perfectly happy if he did not have to repulse the attacks launched at him almost daily by the tonsured magicians of Rome.
Another very detestable thing has also been reported to us, that some persons being laymen, through the desire of temporal glory, are tonsured on the death of bishops, and all at once are made priests.
Be more cheerful, I pray you, or I will have you tonsured and promoted to be a bishop, like that old heretic Barnabas of whom you are so fond.
The tonsured clerk, carrying a handful of quills, a bundle of scrolls, and his ink pot, seated himself at a table in one corner of the room and began to write.
A young Franciscan, his tonsured head a gleaming pink spot surrounded by a wreath of close-cropped black hair, stood at a tall desk beside Friar Mathieu, writing on a piece of parchment.
Alcala's remorse was not for having read some books that did not increase his reverence for the hierarchy of Rome, nor for not having more frequently laid bare his inmost thoughts to a tonsured fellow-sinner.
I was telling you, that formerly the tonsured Tartar pretended to dispose of all the kingdoms of Asia; which occasioned something very different from perfect harmony.
I know who have stood in the way of thy loving me; but let them no longer come between thee and me, or their tonsured heads shall answer for it to my sword.
Thereafter the youth was brought into the island to Ciaran, and Ciaran tonsured him, and he read with him.
He dipped into the hollow where the spring branch talked to itself all night long in the silence and the darkness under the twisted laurel and rhododendrons; once more he stood on the little tonsured hill above the church.
A young fellow of twenty-three, crossing the crown of a higher hill, tonsured years ago by the axe of some settler, but offering half way up its side resistance of undergrowth and saplings, paused a moment in the open to look down.
The foreigners we have expelled, now we must expel those mitred and tonsured traitors who summoned them.
For the tonsured priest, and the monastery, and the nunnery, and the mass, and the Virgin Mary, have grown to be a very great power indeed in English lanes.
Fergan held the tonsured fraternity in singular aversion, yet greatly esteemed Anselm, a true disciple of Christ.
Without making any promises, the tonsured gentleman agreed to communicate our offer to the King when he retired, and he made an appointment with John Molrain for eleven in the evening.
We are ready for those noblemen and clergymen, for all the tonsured fraternity and their bishop to boot!
American official arrested a man, tonsured and robed as a priest in an Aglipayan procession, on a charge of homicide.
The devil take the tonsured fraternity and the troopers!
But what would you have us do, otherwise than repeat with you--'The devil take the troopers and the tonsured fraternity!
He took it up, showed it to the vassals, broke it over his knees, and throwing the pieces at his feet said: "The devil take the tonsured fraternity and the troopers!
The light streaming through the mullioned window fell full upon the carved figure of a tonsuredmonk clad in a loose robe girdled with a cord.
The commander examines his chart and nods to the tonsured priest who falls on his knees and raises his voice in thanksgiving.
The last Merovingian, therefore, was tonsuredand stowed away in a monastery, and Pippin became king of the Franks (751).
The day of these tonsured people has gone by, that of the soldier has come!
Should the abbey of Meriadek turn out to be a convent of tonsured friars with some fighting abbot at their head who refuses to make room for you, you have your sword; your men have their lances.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "tonsured" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word. Other words: bald; beardless; glabrous; smooth
