Definition of "rusticate"

rusticate

/ˈrʌstɪkeɪt/

verb
third-person singular simple present rusticates, present participle rusticating, simple past and past participle rusticated
1. (transitive, intransitive, Oxbridge, Durham University) To be suspended or expelled temporarily from the university, either compulsorily or voluntarily.
  Quotations
  Pen 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 drawbacks, had attained the honour of a degree.
  1848-50, William Makepeace Thackeray, chapter 21, in Pendennis
2. (transitive) To construct in a manner 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.
  Quotations
  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, Arthur Conan Doyle, A Study in Scarlet