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[Eng. tonsil, and Gr. tomē = a cutting.] Surg.: A knife for operations on the tonsils. ton'-sõr, s. [Lat.) A barber; one who shaves. "Go with the tonsor, Pat, and try To aid his hand and guide his eye." Combe: Dr. Syntax , ii. 2. ton-sör-I-al, a. [Lat. tonsor i us , from tonsor = a barber.] Pertaining to a barber or his art. "The tonsorial operation is happily not performed on the stage."- Queen , Sept. 26, 1885. ton-sure (s a h), s . [Fr., from Lat. tonsura = a shearing, clipping, or pruning, from tons us , pa. par. of tondeo =to shear, to clip, to shave.] I. Ordinary Language : 1. The act of clipping or shaving. "They were forbidden to use a particular tonsure of the hair; because a neighboring nation used it in honor of a dead prince whom they worshiped." - Bp. Horsley. Sermons, vol. iii., ser. 33. 2. The state of being clipped or shaved. II. Ecclesiology and Church History: 1. The shaving of the crown in a circle, which is a distinguishing mark of clerics in the Roman Church. Most of the mendicant and cloistered orders allow only a narrow strip of hair to grow round the head, all above and below being shaved; the tonsure of secular clerics is small. The tonsure is a nece ary preliminary to entering the clerical state, whether secular or religious; in the former case it is conferred by the bishop of the diocese, in the latter by the head of the religious house, if a mitered abbot. It invests the receiver with all the privileges of a cleric, and furnishes a means to distinguish the higher from the lower clergy, as the extent of tonsure increases with the rank till the priesthood is reached. Writers of the seventh and eighth centuries distinguish three kinds of tonsure: (1) The Roman, or St. Peter's, in which only a circle of hair was left, common in France and Spain; (2) St. Paul's, which was entire, usual in the East ern Church; and (3) the Celtic, or St. John's, adopted by the British and Irish Churches, in which the head was shaved in front of a line drawn from ear to ear. A violent controversy arose in the seventh century as to the comparative merits of the Celtic and Roman tonsures, but was eventually 1. Geog.: The most northerly province of Anam, decided in favor of the latter, though its introduc in the Eastern Peninsula. 2. Bot .: A corruption of Tonka (q.v.). Tonquin-bean, s . [TONKA-BEAN.] ton-sil, s . [Fr. tonsille , from Latin tonsilla =a sharp-pointed pole which was stuck in the ground to fasten ve els to the shore, and (pl.) tonsillæ = the tonsils of the throat; adj. tonsil is =that may be shorn or clipped, from tonsum, sup. of tondeo = to shear, to clip, to shave.] Anatomy ( pl .): Two glands, one on each side of the palate between its pillars. They consist of a number of deep mucous follicles or cryptæ, surrounded by and deposited in cellular ti ue arranged in a somewhat circular form. They are sometimes called Amygdale. [ALMOND.] The chief diseases which affect the tonsils are inflammation [TONSILITIS] and hypertrophy of their substance, or the morbid influence may be specially concentrated on the follicles alone. Section of Mouth, show. ing Tonsils. tg. Tongue; t, t. Tonsils; vp. Velum palati. IMG:content-1213.png:[blocks in formation] "The tonsile box."- Mason : English Garden, i. ton-sil-It-ic, ton-sil-lit-Ic, adj . [Eng. tonsil; -itic.] Of or pertaining to the tonsils; as, the ton silitic branches of the glo opharyngeal nerve. ton-sil-i-tis, s. [Eng. tonsil ; suff. -it is .] Pathol .: Inflammation of one or both of the tonsils, generally extending also to the palate and uvula. It brings with it dryne , pain, and heat of the throat, with difficulty of swallowing, and often tion nearly led to a schism. 2. The act of admi ion to the clerical state. At first it was never given without some minor order being conferred at the same time, but this practice ceased in the seventh century. "Even after the tonsure was introduced, it was never given separately, but always with the order of reader." Addis & Arnold: Cath. Dict . , p. 798. ton-sure (s as sh), v. t. & i. [TONSURE, 8.] A. Trans.: To confer the tonsure on; to admit to the clerical state. "Adults anxious to be free from the secular courts, ., were tonsured without any ordination." -Addis & Arnold: Cath. Dict ., p. 798. B. In trans.: To confer the tonsure; to admit a person to the clerical state. "It was only gradually that the right to tonsure was limited to bishops, abbots, . Till the tenth century it was given by simple priests, or even by laymen to one another."- Addis & Arnold: Cath. Dict . , p. 798.