пострѝчься в монáхи

пострѝчься в монáхи to be professed, to make a monk, to admit to [take] monastic vows, to enter into religion; (о женщине) to make a nun, to take [admit to] the veil, to be veiled, to go into convent ◊ он был пострижен в мантию he was admitted to monastic mantle; он был пострижен в монахи he was tonsured a monk, he was professed as a monk; он был пострижен в схиму he was admitted to monastic schema.