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attondere

attondēre [CL] , to trim, cut the hair of. b (eccl.) to tonsure. c (p. ppl. as sb. m.) tonsured clerk. Frisones ‥ in coma circulariter sunt attonsi, quia quanto nobiliores tanto rotundiores arbitrantur †~i [? l. ~eri] Eul. Hist. II 75.  b adtondebantur omnes in coronam ministri altaris ac monachi Bede HE V 21; attonsus in clericum Ailr. Nin. 12 p. 156; s794 [Offa] Romam ‥ attonsus [M. Par. Maj. I 320: monachus effectus] celica regna devotus conscendit Flor. Hist. I 357; Dunstanus ‥ in gradum clericalem est attonsus J. Glast. 115; c1400 in canonicum regularem ‥ attonsus G. S. Alb. II 373.  c sive adtonsi seu laici Bede HE III 5.

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