rusticate

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I hope all the rest of you thrive and rusticate, and I feel awfully set up with your being, after your tropic isle, at all tolerant of the hollyhocks and other garden produce of my adopted home.

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  1. intransitive verb To go to or live in the country.
  2. transitive verb To send to the country.
  3. transitive verb Chiefly British To suspend (a student) from a university.

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  • "So you have come to rusticate, have you I would hardly call spending a week in the country at a party with more than twenty other guests rusticating, my lord," she said, turning toward him so that his rudeness to the other three would not seem quite so obvious. —  Balogh, Mary - The Notorious Rake
  • (You can rusticate and still be back to Park Slope in time for dinner.) —  Slate Magazine
  • The university has also decided to rusticate them. —  Gaea Times (by Simple Thoughts) Breaking News and incisive views 24/7
  • I hope all the rest of you thrive and rusticate, and I feel awfully set up with your being, after your tropic isle, at all tolerant of the hollyhocks and other garden produce of my adopted home. —  The Life of Mrs. Robert Louis Stevenson
  • Elizabeth, is not going there this year, so I am compelled to rusticate. —  Alice, or the Mysteries — Complete
 

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  1. Latin rūsticārī, rūsticāt-, from rūsticus, rustic; see rustic.

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  1. from Latin rusticatus, past participle of rusticari (later Italian rusticare = Portuguese rusticar = French rustiquer), live in the country, from rusticus, of the country: see rustic.
 

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/ˈrəstɪkeɪt/
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