rusticate


Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
rusticate /ˈrʌstɪkeɪt/
verb
  • 1 Brit. suspend (a student) from a university as a punishment (used chiefly at Oxford and Cambridge).
  • 2 dated go to, live in, or spend time in the country.
  • 3 fashion (masonry) in large blocks with sunken joints and a roughened surface.
– derivatives
rustication noun.
– origin C15 (in the sense ‘make countrified’): from L. rusticat-, rusticari ‘live in the country’, from rusticus (see rustic).
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