rusticating

Verb

rusticate (third-person singular simple present rusticates, present participle rusticating, simple past and past participle rusticated)

1. (ambitransitive, Durham University) To be suspended or expelled temporarily from the university, either compulsorily or voluntarily.
   • The college rusticated him after he failed all his exams.
2. (transitive) To construct so as to produce jagged or heavily textured surfaces.
3. (transitive) To compel to live in or to send to the countryside; to cause to become rustic.
4. (intransitive) To go to reside in the country.
   • 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.1887, A[rthur] Conan Doyle, “A Study in Scarlet”, in Beeton’s Christmas Annual, London; New York, N.Y.: Ward, Lock & Co., part I (Being a reprint from the reminiscences of John H. Watson, M.D., […])...