Definition of "tonsuring" [tonsuring]

• Present participle of tonsure. (verb)

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• "For those interested in following the Institute of the Good Shepherd (and I know there is such an interest), the website of their seminary has up some new photographs of recent events in IBP life, including a Candlemas procession and, most recently, the tonsuring of some of their seminarians."
• "Speaking of scalps, I discovered that the Mimbrenos had no special zeal for tonsuring their enemies, but they brought back a few from those of Gallantin's band they'd killed, and the women dressed and stretched them on little frames, to brighten up the parlour, I dare say."
• "In basements they could see through half-open doors at the bottom of ladderlike steps, earnest-faced men, with long, well-tended queues of hair, busily tonsuring sleepy clients."