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   rusticate

   /ˈrʌstɪkeɪt/

   verb

   • 1. suspend (a student) from a university as a punishment (used chiefly at Oxford and Cambridge): British "Shelley was rusticated for co-writing an atheistic pamphlet"
   • 2. go to, live in, or spend time in the country: dated "a place to rusticate while other people made the decisions"
   • 3. fashion (masonry) in large blocks with sunk joints and a roughened surface: "the stable block was built of rusticated stone"

   Word Origin late 15th century (in the sense ‘countrify’): from Latin rusticat- ‘(having) lived in the country’, from the verb rusticari, from rusticus (see rustic).

   Derivatives

   • 1. rustication noun

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