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Definition of Rusticate
1. Verb. Live in the country and lead a rustic life.
Derivative terms: Rustic, Rustication, Rustication
2. Verb. Send to the country. "He was rusticated for his bad behavior"
3. Verb. Suspend temporarily from college or university, in England.
4. Verb. Give (stone) a rustic look.
5. Verb. Lend a rustic character to. "Rusticate the house in the country"
Definition of Rusticate
1. v. i. To go into or reside in the country; to ruralize.
2. v. t. To require or compel to reside in the country; to banish or send away temporarily; to impose rustication on.
Definition of Rusticate
1. Verb. (transitive) (British) To suspend or expel from a college or university. ¹
2. Verb. (transitive) To construct in a manner so as to produce jagged or heavily textured surfaces. ¹
3. Verb. (transitive) To compel to live in or to send to the countryside; to cause to become rustic. ¹
4. Verb. (intransitive) To go to reside in the country. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Rusticate
1. [v -CATED, -CATING, -CATES]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Rusticate
Literary usage of Rusticate
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Parson, Pen, and Pencil: Or, Reminiscences and Illustrations of an by George Musgrave Musgrave (1848)
"... I would rusticate, as we say at Oxford, or, rather, summarily expel, all these
shabby public-house chairs, and replace them, with the light, elegant, ..."
2. A Dictionary of the Welsh Language: Explained in English; with Numerous by William Owen Pughe (1832)
"... To rusticate ; to become rusticated ; to be abashed, ... To rusticate ; to be.
come rustic. ..."
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