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  • verb Simple past tense and past participle of ruralize.

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  • Before the middle of the seventh century A.D. the area had been "ruralized," for instance the Trajanic street fountain being used as a dump for slaughtered cattle remains (see Lower Agora - North, July 20-August 2).

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  • If Urban-Rural =0, then one side says the Urban sites are ruralized; the other says the

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  • Had he been better informed, it is doubtful whether, improvident and enamored as he was, he would have ruralized and practicalized Romeo in the lane of Burleigh Grange.

    The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 04, No. 23, September, 1859 Various

  • I never shall forget his delight as we tranquilly glided to the side of the landing-place, nor his violent indignation when stepping out of the boat in a pair of jockey boots, and selecting, what appeared to his ruralized vision, a _verdant_ spot; his feet slid from under him, and he got a fall unmodified in its disagreeable results by the excitement of the sport so prevalent in his native country.

    The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 14, No. 387, August 28, 1829 Various

  • This tardy favourite of fortune-hobbling a little, I think, as if in memory of the sciatica, but with not a trace that I can remember of the sea-thoroughly ruralized from head to foot, proceeded to escort us up the hill behind his house.

    The Silverado Squatters 1884

  • This tardy favourite of fortune -- hobbling a little, I think, as if in memory of the sciatica, but with not a trace that I can remember of the sea -- thoroughly ruralized from head to foot, proceeded to escort us up the hill behind his house.

    The Silverado Squatters Robert Louis Stevenson 1872

  • The latter are sweet and New Wave and romantic, like The Strokes really should have been when they made it big; the former are more delicate, kind of a ruralized, folkified indie-pop that sounds appropriately watery and ocean-going.

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  • George Pór: There is already a conversation going on about this in the comments of the ... need to be ruralized again, argues Tom Bliss:

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  • One of the regime’s central tenets was that Italy had to be “ruralized,” because life in the industrial cities was undermining the nation’s virility—“sterilizing the people”—and thus depriving the country of its future fighting men.

    Delizia! John Dickie 2008

  • Nausicaa is set in a post-apocalyptic age, about 1000 years after the destruction of most of the natural environment; humans now live in small, oddly ruralized outposts scattered throughout the world, travelling from outpost to outpost on either large ostrich-like creatures I don't think they were actually ostriches, but that was what came to mind) or airships or gliders.)

    Nausicaa of the Valley of the Wind mariness 2005

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