rusticate
verb
- make rustic
Wiktionary
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).
- 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.”
- To construct so as to produce jagged or heavily textured surfaces.
- To compel to live in or to send to the countryside; to cause to become rustic.
- 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.”