单词 | rusticate |
释义 | † rusticateadj. Obsolete. rare. Countrified; rustic, boorish. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > farming > farmer > [adjective] > peasant or rustic churlisha1000 upland14.. rustical?a1475 ruric1488 rusticate?a1505 rural1513 upalands1535 clownish1570 rustic1582 clownical1614 clown-likea1640 swainish1642 nut-brown1648 countrified1653 Corydonical1656 sylvatic1661 villatic1671 farmerly1689 peasant1702 soil-bound1814 farmerish1835 farmery1862 corn-pone1919 swede-bashing1936 a1505 R. Henryson Orpheus & Eurydice l. 12 in Poems (1981) 132 A ryall renk for to be rusticate [a1525 Asloan rusticat] Is bot a monster in comparison, Had in despyte and foule derision. 1683 R. Dixon Canidia v. xii. 110 A Rusticate Parson in Habit and Mind, Is a Scorn to the Learned kind. 1854 Putnam's Monthly Mag. Aug. 187/2 Our sedentary collegiate (and rusticate) life had thrown our legs a little ‘out of drawing’. This is a new entry (OED Third Edition, March 2011; most recently modified version published online December 2020). rusticatev. 1. a. intransitive. To stay or live in the countryside; to live a quiet country life. ΘΚΠ society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabiting a type of place > inhabit type of place [verb (intransitive)] > dwell in the country rusticate1660 ruralize1761 1660 J. Gauden Mem. Bp. Brounrigg 159 To rusticate (as Elisha sometimes did) among plain people that follow the Plough. 1698 J. Fryer New Acct. E.-India & Persia 259 In the Afternoon..we went to Mirge,..to an old lonely Inn, where was the last place we rusticated. 1734 J. Soame Hampstead-Wells i. 26 Numbers of Citizens are obliged to rusticate very often, to avoid the necessary Stagnation, and Fermentation of such variety of all kinds of Atome, as often are produc'd in great Cities. 1789 Triumphs Fortitude I. 22 Wherever those of the fashionable world assemble, in spite of all they can do to rusticate, Art will generally appear to prevail over Nature. 1804 ‘Gabrielli’ Something Odd! II. 163 Sir Christopher..thought it his duty to attend the House for the present rather than rusticate. 1838 E. Bulwer-Lytton Alice I. i. ix. 72 Lady Elizabeth, is not going there this year; so I am compelled to rusticate. 1886 C. Keene in Life (1892) 358 I..heard..that you were going to rusticate on some riverside. 1916 T. S. Eliot Let. 21 Aug. (1988) I. 145 Ezra holds out in London, and refuses to rusticate. 1954 E. Taylor Hester Lilly 120 She came there, she made it clear, to rusticate..; she came to rest from the demands of London. 2006 T. A. Warren Wife Trap xxii. 352 She had been rusticating in Ireland far too long, she told herself. b. intransitive. To live or spend time in seclusion, esp. enforcedly. ΚΠ 1829 F. Marryat Naval Officer I. ii. 50 Murphy was dismissed in disgrace, and ordered to rusticate on board till his eye was bright. 1862 E. S. Gould John Doe & Richard Roe iv. 42 A prisoner who had been rusticating in [cell] Number Thirteen for some months. 1906 C. Klein Lion & Mouse xiii. 308 Who would have expected to find you rusticating on a bench here? 1987 A. Ginsberg Let. 21 Dec. in A. Ginsberg & G. Snyder Sel. Lett. (2009) 275 We'll try to get him moved down to an adult home nearer the city so he can socialize again after years rusticating in distant halfway houses. 2. transitive. To make rustic or rural in nature or character; to countrify. Usually in passive. ΘΚΠ 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 1699 A. Boyer Royal Dict. Rusticate, (to infect with the Manners of the Country) Rendre grossier comme un Paysan. a1766 F. Sheridan Concl. Mem. Miss Sidney Bidulph (1770) IV. 157 The poor creatures are absolutely rusticated. 1794 M. Wollstonecraft Hist. & Moral View of Origin & Progress French Revol. 503 They did not inhabit the homely recesses of indigence, rusticating their manners as they cultivated their understandings. 1824 Examiner 170/2 Our thoughts, environed by the rural objects of the picture, are happily rusticated in the mimic country. 1971 J. W. Lewis City in Communist China 26 The aim of the present Chinese leadership is much more to urbanize the countryside than to rusticate the city. 1995 C. W. Ellison Country Music Culture i. 9 He [sc. George Hay] even rusticated his own image in Nashville, adopting the stage persona ‘The Solemn Old Judge’. 3. a. transitive. To dismiss or send down (a student) from university on a temporary basis, as a punishment; to suspend. ΘΚΠ society > education > educational administration > university administration > [verb (transitive)] > send down rusticate1709 to send away1714 to send off1843 to send down1853 1709 W. Oldisworth Dial. Timothy & Philatheus I. 1 I..have been Rusticated every Term, Sconc't every Carrier, and had as many Crosses upon my Name, as a Popish Saint. 1734 in B. Peirce Hist. Harvard Univ. (1833) App. 140 If..it be denied him, such Undergraduate shall be degraded, rusticated, or expelled. 1766 T. Clap Ann. Yale-Coll. 86 If they do persist, and are guilty of some greater Crime, they are publickly admonished or rusticated, for some Months. 1825 C. M. Westmacott Eng. Spy I. 171 Rattle was rusticated for a term. 1858 A. Trollope Dr. Thorne I. ii. 31 This son had been first rusticated from Oxford, and then expelled. 1868 ‘H. Lee’ Basil Godfrey's Caprice xxxi. 256 I was rusticated for..painting the college pump scarlet. 1914 S. B. Steele 40 Years in Canada 112 A West Point cadet..who had been rusticated for objecting to a coloured student from Virginia. 1961 A. Hosain Sunlight on Broken Column ii. xi. 164 Two students who had led the actual attack on the police on the first day were rusticated; no action was taken against the others. 2009 OxfordStudent.com (Electronic text) 27 Oct. Do I spend my next hour working on a disciplinary appeal to stop a student being rusticated? b. transitive. To send (a person) into the countryside. Also in extended use. Also reflexive: to settle oneself in the countryside. ΘΚΠ society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabiting a type of place > inhabit type of place [verb (transitive)] > send to dwell in the country rusticate1733 rusticize1841 society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabiting a type of place > inhabit type of place [verb (reflexive)] > dwell in the country rusticate1733 1733 G. Cheyne Eng. Malady i. vi. 55 Seldom any lasting..Cure is perform'd till the Diseased be rusticated and purified from the infectious Air and Damps. 1749 H. Fielding Tom Jones I. i. x. 57 From which Time he had entirely rusticated himself. View more context for this quotation 1761 New & Gen. Biogr. Dict. III. 421 They had rusticated themselves into the mountains and deserts, as the only places where happiness could be found. 1812 M. Edgeworth Vivian xii, in Tales Fashionable Life IV. 334 I told you, that I intended to rusticate Julia..with a poor parson and his wife. 1894 Times 25 July 10/1 If a..novel cannot be fobbed off upon the..people of London..it is rusticated. 1902 Charities 27 Dec. 629/1 A strong deputation was sent to the Ontario Government to ask for..the adoption of some method to rusticate and attempt the cure of confirmed drunkards. 1973 P. M. Holt Stud. Hist. Near East xiii. 242 Küçük Muḥammad was rusticated..to the provincial town of al-Manṣūra in the Gharbiyya. 2002 T. H. Taylor Behind Hitler's Lines iii. 54 If a Norman feared a midnight knock on the door, Camille could rusticate him as proprietor of a country safe house. 4. transitive. Architecture. To make rustic in appearance or style; esp. to roughen (the surface of masonry, etc.). Cf. rustic adj. 3a. Also intransitive.figurative in quot. 1851. ΘΚΠ society > occupation and work > industry > building or constructing > building or constructing with stone > build or construct with stone [verb (transitive)] > other processes raggle1525 pin1680 rusticate1715 heart1776 tool1815 boast1823 fine-axe1834 ashlar1836 riprap1837 stroke1842 ditch1865 wraggle1875 bush-hammera1884 thorough-bind1884 society > leisure > the arts > visual arts > architecture > architectural ornament > [verb (transitive)] > rusticate rusticate1715 society > occupation and work > industry > building or constructing > building or constructing with stone > build or construct with stone [verb (intransitive)] > specific processes rusticate1851 1715 N. Dubois & G. Leoni tr. A. Palladio Architecture I. x. 16 Brick-walls ought not to be rusticated [It. non si faranno muri di pietra cotta rustichi]. 1749 J. Wood Ess. Descr. Bath (ed. 2) II. iii. xii. 350 The advanced Parts of that Wall I intended to Rusticate and crown with a Ballustrade. 1839 Civil Engineer & Architect's Jrnl. 2 319/1 A ground story, rusticated and terminated by an enriched lace band or string course. 1851 J. Ruskin Stones of Venice I. xxvi. 289 She [sc. nature] does rusticate sometimes: crumbly sandstones, with their ripple-marks filled with red mud; [etc.]. 1901 J. Black Illustr. Carpenter & Builder Ser. 56 The concrete forming the steps is rusticated with shells and pebbles, &c., on the fronts, and clean coarse gravel on the top faces or treads. 1951 N. Pevsner Middlesex (Buildings of Eng.) 32 The gateway is rusticated and has severe Tuscan columns supporting a Doric frieze and pediment. 2005 J. Yarnall Newport through Archit. ii. 19 The library was..built of wood for economy's sake, but its surface was rusticated to emulate carved granite. Derivatives ˈrusticating n. and adj. ΘΚΠ society > occupation and work > industry > building or constructing > building or constructing with stone > [noun] > other processes raggling1500 rigalding1688 tailing1700 rusticating1749 rustication1766 knobbling1785 boasting1823 wind-pinning1833 stroking1842 garreting1845 hearting1858 knobbing1875 ripple-flaking1883 retouch1885 society > leisure > the arts > visual arts > plastic art > sculpture or carving > [noun] > processes or techniques hatchet work1697 bossage1704 rusticating1749 boasting1823 chiselling1835 marmotinto1844 pointing1845 modelling1865 petroglyphy1882 pointillé1893 ganosis1911 1749 Mitre & Crown July 549 The previous Displeasure of some great Man against the V.C. whose laudable Exertion of Power, in that Capacity only, by way of Rusticating and Expelling, has been deemed sufficient by their Superiors. 1766 J. Gwynn London & Westm. Improved 45 The practice of rusticating should never be carried higher than the basement of a building. 1801 W. Taylor in Monthly Mag. 12 579 A rustic and rusticating fashion for farmery. 1852 T. De Quincey Sketch from Childhood in Hogg's Instructor New Ser. 8 338/2 At these rusticating seasons, he had often much further to come than ourselves. 1911 H. S. Harrison Captivating Mary Carstairs 138 He looked like a rusticating college professor—of Greek, say. 2003 J. O'Brien Enter Hero i. 25 A bit of rusticating may be just the thing before we set off for home. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2011; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < adj.?a1505v.1660 |
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