rusticate.
To be suspended or expelled temporarily from the university, either compulsorily or voluntarily.
Meaning & usage
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.
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.
Where this word comes from
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).
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