rusticate

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin rūsticor (“live in the countryside”), originally in the same sense. First attested in the mid-17th century. By surface analysis, rustic +‎ -ate (verb-forming suffix).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈrʌstɪkeɪt/

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Verb

rusticate (third-person singular simple present rusticates, present participle rusticating, simple past and past participle rusticated)

1. (transitive, intransitive, Oxbridge, Durham University) To be suspended or expelled temporarily from the university, either compulsorily or voluntarily.

   The college rusticated him after he failed all his exams.

   I was very unwell, so I had to rusticate for a year.

   • 1848 November – 1850 December, William Makepeace Thackeray, chapter XXI, in The History of Pendennis. […], volume (please specify |volume=I or II), London: Bradbury and Evans, […], published 1849–1850, →OCLC:

     Pen looked at his early acquaintance,—who had been plucked, who had been rusticated, who had only, after repeated failures, learned to read and write correctly, and who, in spite of all these drawbacks, had attained the honour of a degree.

   • 1859–1861, [Thomas Hughes], “The Captain’s Notions”, in Tom Brown at Oxford: […], part 1st, Boston, Mass.: Ticknor and Fields, published 1861, →OCLC, page 192:

     "You don't think he'll rusticate us, or any thing of that sort?" said Tom, who had felt horrible twinges at the captain's picture of the effects of rustication on ordinary mortals.

2. (transitive) To construct so as to produce jagged or heavily textured surfaces.
3. (transitive) To compel to live in or to send to the countryside; to cause to become rustic.
4. (intransitive) To go to reside in the country.
   • 1887, A[rthur] Conan Doyle, “A Study in Scarlet”, in Beeton’s Christmas Annual, London; New York, N.Y.: Ward, Lock & Co., part I (Being a reprint from the reminiscences of John H. Watson, M.D., […]), chapter I (Mr. Sherlock Holmes), page 2:

     So alarming did the state of my finances become, that I soon realized that I must either leave the metropolis and rusticate somewhere in the country, or that I must make a complete alteration in my style of living.

Related terms

• rustication
• rusticator

Translations

suspend or expel from a college or university

• Czech: vyloučit ze studií
• French: limoger (fr) (military)
• German: exmatrikulieren (de), zwangsexmatrikulieren (de)

to construct

to cause to become rustic

to go to reside in the country

• German: aufs Land ziehen

Anagrams

• urticates

Latin

Participle

rūsticāte

1. vocative masculine singular of rūsticātus

Spanish

Verb

rusticate

1. second-person singular voseo imperative of rusticar combined with te