['r?st?ke?t]
¦ verb
1. Brit. suspend (a student) from a university as a punishment (used chiefly at Oxford and Cambridge).
2. dated go to, live in, or spend time in the country.
3. fashion (masonry) in large blocks with sunken joints and a roughened surface.
Derivatives
rustication noun
Origin
C15 (in the sense 'make countrified'): from L.
rusticat-,
rusticari 'live in the country', from
rusticus (see
rustic).