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Rusticate

verb

(past & past part. rusticated; pres. part. rusticating)

Live in the country and lead a rustic life.

Send to the country.

Suspend temporarily from college or university, in England. Synonym: send down.

Give (stone) a rustic look.

Lend a rustic character to.

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"Rusticate" Quotes from Famous Books

... it was because I was a new chum, just as though it were necessary for a fellow to rusticate for untold ages in these barbarous solitudes, before he is allowed to give an opinion on any ...

— A Dictionary of Austral English • Edward Morris

... then. Billy Whistle [the irreverend nickname we undergraduates gave the Master of Trinity] will rusticate me to a certainty. It can't be helped. The cause is sacred. I'll meet you ...

— Tracks of a Rolling Stone • Henry J. Coke

... cut, for I don't remember all that; I had been wining at Christchurch. I do remember slanging the fellows, but how can I tell what I said? I say, old fellow, it will be a bad job for me if they expel me, or even rusticate me; my father will never forgive me; I shall be his clerk, but never his partner; and then he will find out what a lot I owe down here. I'm done ...

— Foul Play • Charles Reade

... of passage with no fixed abode. Some weeks ago he gave up his chambers in St. James's, and went to live with an actor friend, a grass-widower, who has a house in the St. John's Wood Road close by. Why Pasquale, who loves the palpitating centres of existence, should choose to rusticate in this semi-arcadian district, I cannot imagine. He says he can think ...

— The Morals of Marcus Ordeyne • William J. Locke