rusticate
📖 Definitions
verb intr.
1. To go to or live in the country.
2. To live or spend time in seclusion.
verb tr.
1. To send to the country.
2. To suspend (a student) from a university as a punishment.
3. To make rustic or rural.
4. To make something, such as a masonry surface, rough, textured, jagged, etc.
💬 Usage Examples
“I will then be forced to rusticate in the country for months to recover from such a deadly blow.” Vanessa Kelly; Mastering the Marquess; Zebra; 2009. “When he was rusticated from Oxford for failing his exams, the late journalist Auberon Waugh was told by his father, Evelyn: ‘There are only two possible careers for a man who has been sent down from Oxford.
You must become either a schoolmaster or a spy.’” Harry Mount; The First Rule of Spy Club? Never Ask to Join Spy Club; The Daily Telegraph (London, UK); Jul 2, 2021. “[The house] comes with a rusticated stucco exterior.” Weekender Sets Kogan Back $13m; The Australian (Canberra); Feb 15, 2021.