rus|ti|cate

rus|ti|cate
rus|ti|cate «RUHS tuh kayt», verb, -cat|ed -cat|ing.
–v.i.
to go to the country; stay in the country: »

Month after month, he rusticated in solitary grandeur in Pasadena (New Yorker).

–v.t.
1. to send to the country.
2. British. to suspend (a student) from a university or college as a punishment.
3. to make (masonry) with a rough surface or sunken joints.
[< Latin rūsticārī (with English -ate1) < rūsticus; see etym. under rustic (Cf.rustic)]

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