ruralizev.
/ˈrʊərəlʌɪz/, /ˈrʊərl̩ʌɪz/, U.S. /ˈrʊrəˌlaɪz/ 1. intransitive. To spend time in the country; to engage in rural pursuits.
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society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabiting a type of place > inhabit type of place [verb (intransitive)] > dwell in the country
rusticate1660
ruralize1761
1761 George's Coffee House 5 Prentic'd Prigs..Who for the day had ruralizing been.
1822 E. Nathan Langreath I. 15 A large party, whom he intended bringing from London to ruralize during the autumn.
1843 F. E. Paget Warden of Berkingholt 139 It will be found that they have been ruralizing with Dr. Wiseman at Oscott.
1866 London Rev. 23 June 697/2 In these days a man won't ruralize without publishing.
1912 E. A. Parry What Judge Saw xi. 188 This company of motor buses had been mainly formed in the interest of the working man, who desired to ruralise among us.
1985 A. S. Byatt Still Life iv. 58 He took her to Uzès, where Racine had once come to ruralise.
2004 A. Hemingway Greenstone Grail (2006) 164 Strangers were not unusual in Eade: tourists on the antiques trail, city dwellers ruralizing with ex-London friends.
2. transitive. To give a rural character or appearance to.
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society > society and the community > social class > the common people > specific classes of common people > peasant or rustic > [verb (transitive)] > countrify in manners or appearance
rurify1593
rusticate1699
rusticize1830
ruralize1883
1764 P. Gibbes Hist. Lady Louisa Stroud I. 30 Don't you perceive, my Dear, that I am perfectly ruralized?
1826 Blackwood's Edinb. Mag. Feb. 111/2 What are town-gardens and shrubberies in squares, but an attempt to ruralize the city?
1883 R. L. Stevenson Silverado Squatters i. ii. 29 This tardy favourite of fortune..thoroughly ruralized from head to foot.
1915 William Rockhill Nelson: Story Man Newspaper & City iv. 41 He imported squirrels from adjoining States and turned them loose in the parks to add to their attractiveness and to ruralize them.
1982 Science 17 Sept. 1115/1 As parts of the countryside were metropolitanized, the metropolitan system as a whole was ruralized in the 1970's.
2007 Seattle Post-Intelligencer (Nexis) 24 Oct. c1 I'm from West Virginia. It's no problem for me to ruralize my voice.
Derivatives
ˈruralized adj.
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1829 Mirror Lit., Amusem., & Instr. 29 Aug. 142/1 Stepping out of the boat..and selecting, what appeared to his ruralized vision, a verdant spot.
1920 L. W. Rapeer Consolidated Rural School xvi. 363 We are bound in the direction of a socialized education, and, in the country, a ruralized education.
1996 Éire-Ireland Spring–Summer 195 These pictures of a ruralized New York cityscape indicate that the fringes of the urban environment were deliberately readapted by Irish immigrants.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2011; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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