Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The act of rusticating, or the state of being rusticated; residence, especially forced residence, in the country; in universities and colleges, the punishment of a student for some offense by compelling him to leave the institution, and sometimes also compelling him to reside for a time in some other specified place.
- noun In architecture, that species of masonry called
rustic work (which see, underrustic ).
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun The act of rusticating, or the state of being rusticated; specifically, the punishment of a student for some offense, by compelling him to leave the institution for a time.
- noun (Arch.) Rustic work.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun the act of
rusticating (transitive verb sense) - noun the act of being
rusticated (intransitive verb sense) - noun UK, military the process of posting a person or relocating a unit from
London (or a command HQ) to elsewhere in the country.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun the action of retiring to and living in the country
- noun the construction of masonry or brickwork in a rustic manner
- noun temporary dismissal of a student from a university
- noun the condition naturally attaching to life in the country
- noun banishment into the country
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Examples
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Whatever the nature of the punishment, it was not what is known as rustication; for
Milton Mark Pattison 1848
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James Russell Lowell was forced into "rustication" for two months in his senior year at Harvard and compelled to read John Locke and other difficult authors during the period.
Undergraduate Work and the University of North Carolina 1934
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When the punishment of suspension was inflicted the offender usually spent his period of "rustication" at the home of a substantial citizen, father of our present Bursar, on New Hope Creek.
History of the University of North Carolina. Volume I: From its Beginning to the Death of President Swain, 1789-1868 Kemp Plummer 1907
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You'll need a black belt in jargon to describe some of these features – is that a mix of banded and vermiculated rustication on those corbelled columnar shafts?
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It revelled in being artificial and theatrical, with columns or arches supporting nothing, pumped-up cornices and weighty-looking rustication that sounded hollow when you tapped it.
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(This is a nice touch — no amount of rustication can teach the New York native to trust country dentists.)
From J.D., P.O. Box 32 Adam Kirsch 2010
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(This is a nice touch — no amount of rustication can teach the New York native to trust country dentists.)
From J.D., P.O. Box 32 Adam Kirsch 2010
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(This is a nice touch — no amount of rustication can teach the New York native to trust country dentists.)
From J.D., P.O. Box 32 Adam Kirsch 2010
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In the movie version of Balzac and the Little Chinese Seamstress, two teenaged men from the city befriend a young woman in the mountain village where they have been sent for rustication during the Cultural Revolution.
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I took this rustication for six months, sometimes in town, sometimes on the hill, just as the whim suits.
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