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rusticate

verb

  1. make rustic
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Pronunciation: /ˈrʌstɪkeɪt/

verb

Etymology: Borrowed from Latin rūsticātus, perfect active participle of rūsticor (“to live in the countryside”) (see -ate (verb-forming suffix)), originally in the same sense. First attested in the mid-17th century. By surface analysis, rustic + -ate (verb-forming suffix).

  1. To be suspended or expelled temporarily from the university, either compulsorily or voluntarily.

    The college rusticated him after he failed all his exams.

    I was very unwell, so I had to rusticate for a year.

  2. To construct so as to produce jagged or heavily textured surfaces.
  3. To compel to live in or to send to the countryside; to cause to become rustic.
  4. To go to reside in the country.

    So alarming did the state of my finances become, that I soon realized that I must either leave the metropolis and rusticate somewhere in the country, or that I must make a complete alteration in my style of living.