rusticate
/ˈrʌstɪkeɪt/
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 1.12 in modern English
11
Scrabble Score
9
Letters
3
Syllables
8
Unique Chars
Meaning
verb
To be suspended or expelled temporarily from the university, either compulsorily or voluntarily.
Example Sentences
- "The college rusticated him after he failed all his exams."
- "I was very unwell, so I had to rusticate for a year."
- "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."
- ""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."
- "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."
Etymology
Borrowed from Latin rūsticātus, perfect active participle of rūsticor (“to live in the countryside”) (see -ate (verb-forming suffix)), originally in the same sense. First attested in the mid-17th century. By surface analysis, rustic + -ate (verb-forming suffix).