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rusticate verb [ ˈrʌstɪkeɪt ]

• suspend (a student) from a university as a punishment (used chiefly at Oxford and Cambridge).
• "Shelley was rusticated for co-writing an atheistic pamphlet"
• go to, live in, or spend time in the country.
• "a place to rusticate while other people made the decisions"
• fashion (masonry) in large blocks with sunk joints and a roughened surface.
• "the stable block was built of rusticated stone"
Origin: late 15th century (in the sense ‘countrify’): from Latin rusticat- ‘(having) lived in the country’, from the verb rusticari, from rusticus (see rustic).


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