Crossword clues for rusticate
rusticate
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Rusticate \Rus"ti*cate\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. Rusticated; p.
pr. & vb. n. Rusticating.] [L. rusticaticus, p. p. of
rusticari to rusticate. See Rustic.]
To go into or reside in the country; to ruralize.
--Pope.
Rusticate \Rus"ti*cate\, v. t. To require or compel to reside in the country; to banish or send away temporarily; to impose rustication on.
The town is again beginning to be full, and the
rusticated beauty sees an end of her banishment.
--Idler.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1650s, from Latin rusticatus, past participle of rusticarti "to live in the country" (see rustication). Related: Rusticated; rusticating.
Wiktionary
vb. 1 (context transitive British English) To suspend or expel from a college or university. 2 (context transitive English) To construct in a manner so as to produce jagged or heavily textured surfaces. 3 (context transitive English) To compel to live in or to send to the countryside; to cause to become rustic. 4 (context intransitive English) To go to reside in the country.
WordNet
v. live in the country and lead a rustic life
send to the country; "He was rusticated for his bad bahavior"
suspend temporarily from college or university, in England [syn: send down]
as of stone, to give it a rustic look
lend a rustic character to; "rusticate the house in the country"
Usage examples of "rusticate".
James, then a hobbadehoy, was now become a young man, having had the benefits of a university education, and acquired the inestimable polish which is gained by living in a fast set at a small college, and contracting debts, and being rusticated, and being plucked.
She returned the novel, a week overdue, to the library that stands on Bridges Street, one of those thick, gray Romanesque concoctions that Andrew Carnegie used to give away across America, pillared, arched, rusticated and domed, at once fantastic and dispiriting.
Why is there a rusticated pyramid on the Great Seal of the United States, surmounted by the mystic eye?
James, then a hobbadehoy, was now become a young man, having had the benefits of a university education, and acquired he inestimable polish which is gained by living in a fast set at a small college, and contracting debts, and being rusticated, and being plucked.
Why, only last term, just before I was rusticated, that is, I mean just before I had the measles, ha, ha,—there was me and Ringwood of Christchurch, Bob Ringwood, Lord Cinqbars’ son, having our beer at the Bell at Blenheim, when the Banbury bargeman offered to fight either of us for a bowl of punch.
Since my father could tolerate no conflict with the Ymphs, you must be rusticated to Glentlin, and by unhappy chance you ran afoul of Ramus Ymph in connection with Cape Junchion.
The old city had begun as a silver miners’ boom town, then rusticated for a long while, and then had become a ski resort.
Retired cloth-merchants and rusticating attorneys had not discovered it as yet.
Lish thought we were rusticated to a degree that defied our eventual education.
In short, my dear, if you was unluckily to see him now, I could describe him no better than by telling you he was the very reverse of everything which he is: for he hath rusticated himself so long, that he is become an absolute wild Irishman.