rusticate
To be suspended or expelled temporarily from the university, either compulsorily or voluntarily.
Verb
- To be suspended or expelled temporarily from the university, either compulsorily or voluntarily.
- The college rusticated him after he failed all his exams.
- I was very unwell, so I had to rusticate for a year.
- 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...
- To construct so as to produce jagged or heavily textured surfaces.
- To compel to live in or to send to the countryside; to cause to become rustic.
- 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. -...
Origin
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).