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Rusticate

//ˈrʌstɪkeɪt// verb

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

    "The college rusticated him after he failed all his exams."

  2. 2
    lend a rustic character to wordnet
  3. 3
    To construct so as to produce jagged or heavily textured surfaces. transitive
  4. 4
    give (stone) a rustic look wordnet
  5. 5
    To compel to live in or to send to the countryside; to cause to become rustic. transitive
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  1. 6
    suspend temporarily from college or university, in England wordnet
  2. 7
    To go to reside in the country. intransitive

    "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."

  3. 8
    send to the country wordnet
  4. 9
    live in the country and lead a rustic life wordnet

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).

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