rusticate

pronunciation

How to pronounce rusticate in British English: UK ['rʌstɪkeɪt]word uk audio image

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  • Verb:
    live in the country and lead a rustic life
    send to the country
    suspend temporarily from college or university, in England
    as of stone, to give it a rustic look
    lend a rustic character to

Word Origin

rusticate (v.)
1650s, from Latin rusticatus, past participle of rusticarti "to live in the country" (see rustication). Related: Rusticated; rusticating.

Example

1. We need a very strong reason to rusticate him .
2. " Sir , we all want you to rusticate him . "
3. Perhaps the high water mark of this symbolic effort to rusticate western civilization was the brief and turbulent episode in berkeley remembered as " people 's park . "

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