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rusticate en · VERB

Pronunciation

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• /ˈrʌstɪkeɪt/

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).

Meanings

1. (ambitransitive, qualifier:Durham University) To be suspended or expelled temporarily from the university, either compulsorily or voluntarily.
   • I was very unwell, so I had to rusticate for a year.
   • The college rusticated him after he failed all his exams.
   • Pen looked at his early acquaintance,—who had been plucked, who had been rusticated, who had only, after repeated failures, learned to read and write correctly, and who, in spite of all these drawbacks, had attained the honour of a degree. 1848 November – 1850 December, William Makepeace Thackeray, chapter XXI, in The History of Pendennis. […], volume (please specify |volume=I or II), London: Bradbury and Evans, […], published 1849–1850, →OCLC:
   • "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. 1859–1861, [Thomas Hughes], “The Captain’s Notions”, in Tom Brown at Oxford: […], part 1st, Boston, Mass.: Ticknor and Fields, published 1861, →OCLC, page 192:
2. (transitive) To construct so as to produce jagged or heavily textured surfaces.
3. (transitive) To compel to live in or to send to the countryside; to cause to become rustic.
4. (intransitive) 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. 1887, A[rthur] Conan Doyle, “A Study in Scarlet”, in Beeton’s Christmas Annual, London; New York, N.Y.: Ward, Lock & Co., part I (Being a reprint from the reminiscences of John H. Watson, M.D., […]), chapter I (Mr. Sherlock Holmes), page 2:

Forms

Relateds

rusticator · rustication

Translations (5)

de zwangsexmatrikulieren (suspend or expel from a college or university) · de aufs Land ziehen (to go to reside in the country) · de exmatrikulieren (suspend or expel from a college or university) · fr limoger (suspend or expel from a college or university) · cs vyloučit ze studií (suspend or expel from a college or university)