rusticate

[prettygoodword]

rusticate (RUHS-ti-kait) - v., to go live in or send into the countryside; to make rustic; to build as to produce jagged or heavily textured surfaces; (Brit.) to suspend or expel (a student) from a university (esp. Oxbridge).


To become or make rustic, in many senses of that adjective, plus some academic slang. For that last, London counted as country -- anyplace away from the university being less refined, or at least less academic. From Latin rūsticātus, past participle of rūsticārī to live in the country.

---L.

Comments

[med_cat]

Interesting additional meanings, thank you for sharing :)

[prettygoodword.livejournal.com]

Additional to which had you known, I wonder?

---L.

[med_cat]

Oh, just the main one, to live in the countryside, with a connotation of being backward.