Rusticate

Quick meaning: Rusticate is a verb meaning (transitive) To construct so as to produce jagged or heavily textured surfaces.

Meaning

(transitive) To construct so as to produce jagged or heavily textured surfaces.

More Meanings

1. (transitive) To compel to live in or to send to the countryside; to cause to become rustic.
2. (intransitive) To go to reside in the country.
3. (ambitransitive, Oxbridge, Durham University) To be suspended or expelled temporarily from the university, either compulsorily or voluntarily.

Example Sentences

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

The college rusticated him after he failed all his exams.

"You don't think he'll rusticate us, or any thing of that sort?" said Tom, who had felt horrible twinges at the captain's picture of the effects of rustication on ordinary mortals.

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.

Word Forms

• rusticates
• rusticating
• rusticated

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