rusticate
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1RUSTICATE + NOUN
sketch, year
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verb
To be suspended or expelled temporarily from the university, either compulsorily or voluntarily.
The college rusticated him after he failed all his exams.
I was very unwell, so I had to rusticate for a year.
To construct so as to produce jagged or heavily textured surfaces.
To compel to live in or to send to the countryside; to cause to become rustic.
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.
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4The college rusticated him after he failed all his exams.
WiktionaryI was very unwell, so I had to rusticate for a year.
WiktionaryPen 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 drawback
WiktionaryHe told me that he was on the look-out for a quiet, unfrequented place on the seashore, where he might rusticate and sketch.
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