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tonsurare [LL], ~orare [LL] 1 a to give a haircut to, cut the hair of. b to shear (sheep). a Frisia ‥ cujus viri circulariter tonduntur, et quanto nobiliores sunt, tanto celsius ~orantur [ME: i-score] Higd. I 262.  b 1275 dum oves fuerint ad lavandum et ad †concerrendum [l. ~urandum or ~orandum] (Wilts) Hund. II 262b. 2 (mon. & eccl.) to tonsure, give the tonsure to; b (p. ppl. as sb.). 748 pseudosacerdotes ‥ servos ~uratos qui fugerunt dominis suis (Lit. Papae) Ep. Bonif. 80 p. 175; ab Æ. Wintoniensi episcopo ‥ ad clericatus officium ~oratus Wulf. Æthelwold 7; Karlomannus ‥ a Zacharia papa in monachum ~oratur Diceto Chr. 122; Henricum ‥ apud Cluniacum ~oravit W. Newb. HA I 4; matronam quandam ‥ ~oratam et cucullatam ‥ monachare presumpserant Gir. Spec. III 12 p. 200; 1235 diaconum ‥ non ~uratum ‥ habitu et gestu laicum Gros. Ep. 11 p. 51.  b 696 si ~uratus [AS: bescoren] irregulariter vagetur ‥ ei hospitium concedatur Conc. I 60b. 3 to clip (coin). s1289 monetam ~oratam seu reprobatam B. Cotton HA 170. 4 to cut or trim (growth). juro ‥ quod ‥ non utar balneo, barba mea non radetur, neque cesaries michi ~orabitur Ord. Vit. VII 5 p. 174.