Rusticate

  • 11rusticate — rus·ti·cate || rÊŒstɪkeɪt v. live in a country area, lead a rural lifestyle; temporarily suspend from a university (British); cover a wall with roughly cut stones …

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  • 12rusticate —    to banish    Standard English of dismissing British students from university for a while because of idleness or misconduct, even if they continue to reside in a town. The Chinese Communists take things more literally:     His parents had been… …

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  • 13rusticate —    In architecture, to give an eroded or rustic appearance by roughening the surface and beveling the edges of stone blocks to emphasize the joints between them. A technique popular during the Renaissance, especially for stone courses at the… …

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  • 14rusticate — [ rʌstɪkeɪt] verb 1》 Brit. suspend (a student) from a university as a punishment (used chiefly at Oxford and Cambridge). 2》 dated go to, live in, or spend time in the country. 3》 fashion (masonry) in large blocks with sunken joints and a… …

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  • 15rusticate — v. n. Dwell or reside in the country …

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  • 16rusticate — v 1. vacation, vacation in the country, sojourn, sojourn in the country, retire to the country, estivate; retire, go into retirement, retire from the world, abandon or forsake the world, seclude oneself, go into seclusion, shut oneself up, hole… …

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  • 17rusticate — rus·ti·cate …

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  • 18rusticate — rus•ti•cate [[t]ˈrʌs tɪˌkeɪt[/t]] v. cat•ed, cat•ing 1) to go to the country 2) to stay or live in the country 3) to send to or domicile in the country 4) to make rustic, as persons or manners 5) archit. bui to finish (masonry) with deeply sunken …

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  • 19rusticate — [c]/ˈrʌstəkeɪt/ (say rustuhkayt) verb (rusticated, rusticating) –verb (i) 1. to go to the country. 2. to stay or sojourn in the country. –verb (t) 3. to send to or domicile in the country. 4. to make rustic, as persons, manners, etc. 5. to… …

  • 20rusticate —   v.t. live in country; make rustic; punish by expelling from university for a period;   Architecture, face with large, boldly textured blocks with deep grooves between.    ♦ rustication, n …

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