rusticate
pronunciation
How to pronounce rusticate in British English: UK ['rʌstɪkeɪt]
How to pronounce rusticate in American English: US ['rʌstɪˌkeɪt]
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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 . "