rusticate
Meanings
verb
- To be suspended or expelled temporarily from the university, either compulsorily or voluntarily.
- 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.
Pronunciation
Word forms
Etymology
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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