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Definition of Rustication

1. Noun. The condition naturally attaching to life in the country.

2. Noun. The construction of masonry or brickwork in a rustic manner.

3. Noun. The action of retiring to and living in the country.

4. Noun. Temporary dismissal of a student from a university.

5. Noun. Banishment into the country.

Definition of Rustication

1. n. The act of rusticating, or the state of being rusticated; specifically, the punishment of a student for some offense, by compelling him to leave the institution for a time.

Definition of Rustication

1. Noun. the act of rusticating (transitive verb sense) ¹

2. Noun. the act of being rusticated (intransitive verb sense) ¹

3. Noun. (UK military) the process of posting a person or relocating a unit from London (or a command HQ) to elsewhere in the country. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Rustication

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Lexicographical Neighbors of Rustication

rustbucket rustbuckets rusted rustenburgite rustful rustic rustical rusticality rustically rusticalness

rusticals rusticate rusticated rusticates rusticating rustication (current term) rustications rusticator rusticators rusticism

rusticities rusticity rustick rusticle rusticles rusticly rustics rustier rustiest rustily

Literary usage of Rustication

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Civil Engineer and Architect's Journal (1846)
"In proportion as his conceptions are vigorous and effective, he will have the less necessity to resort to rustication and other insipid inexpressive ..."

2. The Life of Charles Lamb by Edward Verrall Lucas (1907)
"... to Manning—A Happy 1816—Coleridge settles at Highgate—A Month at Calne, in Wiltshire—Hazlitt's Article on Coleridge —rustication at Dalston. ..."

3. The Collegian's Guide: Or, Recollections of College Days: Setting Forth the by James Pycroft (1845)
"A TALE OF rustication. I HAVE already introduced Mr. Jenkinson, and shown how all his cunning evasions of the minor evils of college discipline ended in his ..."

4. The American Vignola by William Robert Ware (1906)
"rustication.—In all these cases, though the jointing conspicuously affects ... This treatment is called rustication. It is sometimes applied to the whole ..."

5. Cambridge by Mildred Anna Rosalie Tuker (1907)
"... the proctors—fines—'halls'—'chapels'—town lodgings— expulsion—rustication—'gates'—the tutor—academical dress —cap and gown — the undergraduates' day—the ..."

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