Associations to the word «Rusticate»

Wiktionary

RUSTICATE, verb. (transitive) (British) To suspend or expel from a college or university.
RUSTICATE, verb. (transitive) To construct in a manner so as to produce jagged or heavily textured surfaces.
RUSTICATE, verb. (transitive) To compel to live in or to send to the countryside; to cause to become rustic.
RUSTICATE, verb. (intransitive) To go to reside in the country.

Dictionary definition

RUSTICATE, verb. Live in the country and lead a rustic life.
RUSTICATE, verb. Send to the country; "He was rusticated for his bad behavior".
RUSTICATE, verb. Suspend temporarily from college or university, in England.
RUSTICATE, verb. Give (stone) a rustic look.
RUSTICATE, verb. Lend a rustic character to; "rusticate the house in the country".

Wise words

In words, as fashions, the same rule will hold; Alike fantastic, if too new, or old: Be not the first by whom the new are tried, Nor yet the last to lay the old aside.
Alexander Pope