单词 | rusticated |
释义 | rusticatedadj. 1. a. That is or has become rustic in nature or character; countrified. ΘΚΠ society > society and the community > social class > the common people > specific classes of common people > peasant or rustic > [adjective] > rendered rustic rusticated1699 1699 A. Boyer Royal Dict. Rusticated, qui est devenu grossier ou Paysan. 1727 S. Switzer Pract. Kitchen Gardiner vii. lvi. 295 Some few tops [of parsley] may be indeed used in sallets, but it is a little too coarse for any but rusticated palates. 1754 H. Walpole Lett. (1846) III. 48 Are you such a rusticated animal as to suppose that the Duke is dismissed for inability? 1798 Geraldina I. 30 You see how rusticated I am, by writing on such uninteresting subjects. 1822 W. Irving Bracebridge Hall I. 18 The squire is..rusticated a little by living almost entirely on his estate. 1868 A. L. Spedon Sketches Tour Canada to Paris vi. 117 In came a young man, somewhat abruptly, of a roughly rusticated appearance, yet seemingly a good natured sort of a fellow. 1931 Sackbut Oct. 13 Not that we are a rusticated nation, but we are too far west to utter anything that savours of the ecstatic. 1990 Yankee May 123/1 She raised geese and sheep and spun wool for sweaters, which may sound rusticated, but she is a tough cookie. b. Living in the countryside; leading a country life. Now somewhat archaic. ΘΚΠ society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabiting a type of place > [adjective] > inhabiting the country upland14.. ruralc1425 rustical?a1475 ruric1488 upalands1535 uplands1570 rustic1582 rusticated1757 1757 ‘Britanno-Hibernus’ Northern Revol. ii. iv. 30 Some rusticated members, that seldom attended the diet,..came to town and foiled the whole machination by a few unexpected voices. 1764 Museum Rusticum (1765) 3 238 Extracts from approved modern authors, of which many of the rusticated readers of this work would have remained ignorant. 1809 B. H. Malkin tr. A. R. Le Sage Adventures Gil Blas IV. x. i. 2 Scipio..would have liked better to see me once more blazing at court, than either cloistered or rusticated. 1826 R. Polwhele Trad. & Recoll. II. ix. 605 In the last age some of the rusticated clergy used to favour the popular superstition. 1913 Catholic World Apr. 33 The rusticated young poet pursued more and more violently his course of actual hectoring of the lady upon whom his security depended. 1993 D. Birley Sport & Making of Brit. vi. 139 A rusticated parson..helped bring it [sc. cricket] back to fashion. 2. a. Architecture. Made rustic in appearance or style; esp. (of masonry) roughened on the surface. Cf. rustic adj. 3a. ΘΚΠ society > occupation and work > industry > building or constructing > building or constructing with stone > [adjective] > made or built of stone > in specific way rustic1563 rusticated1730 axed1813 rock-worked1818 Pelasgic1831 1730 E. Oakley Mag. Archit., Perspective, & Sculpt. ii. 69 In this Plate are three Rusticated Frontispieces, and three Rusticated Columns. 1775 G. Washington Let. in Writings (1893) XIV. 315 I wish you had done the end of the New Kitchen next the Garden as also the Old Kitchen with rusticated Boards. 1843 Penny Cycl. XXVI. 270/2 Rusticated Doric and Corinthian, some of the columns of the latter fluted spirally. 1872 J. Ruskin Fors Clavigera II. xxi. 10 An immense mass of merely squared or rusticated stones. 1904 Cent. Mag. Oct. 898/2 Thence an inclined path leads to a rusticated temple with colonnes torses. 1951 Jrnl. Royal Inst. Brit. Architects 58 390/3 The Vignolesque paradox of the Doric pilaster sunk in a rusticated wall. 1997 M. Acton Learning to look at Paintings (2000) viii. 194 This is most obvious in the depiction of the large rectangular opening surrounded by heavily rusticated stonework. b. Archaeology. Of pottery: roughened on the surface, esp. with the fingers, as a means of decoration; (of decoration) done in this style. ΘΚΠ society > occupation and work > materials > derived or manufactured material > clay compositions > baked clay > pottery or ceramics > [adjective] > having specific decoration cane-coloured1787 blue-printed1797 crackled1876 rice grain1876 soufflé1878 fingertip1914 rusticated1916 Nuzi1941 1916 G. H. Jack & A. G. K. Hayter Excavations on Site of Romano-Brit. Town of Magna 221 Black or Grey fumed wares... Rusticated. Two fragments. 1967 Antiquaries Jrnl. 47 202 Somersham..is further known for its imposing ‘pot-beaker’, with rusticated finger-decoration. 1977 G. Clark World Prehist. (ed. 3) x. 448 Impressed and rusticated pottery was supplemented by polychrome painted Tupiguarini ware. 2002 Oxoniensia 66 179 A total of 9 sherds..from a rusticated Beaker which is decorated with deep horizontal grooves and paired finger-nail. 3. Sent or banished to the countryside. Also: temporarily dismissed from a university; suspended. ΘΚΠ society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabiting a type of place > [adjective] > inhabiting the country > relegated to the country rusticated1759 society > education > educational administration > university administration > [adjective] > sent down rusticated1873 1759 S. Johnson Idler 27 Oct. 337 The time is now come when the town is again beginning to be full, and the rusticated beauty sees an end of her banishment. 1795 W. Butler Bagatelles 99 (title) The rusticated Cantab. 1858 J. Pycroft Collegian's Guide (ed. 2) ix. 190 Such is the way that naughty rusticated young men leave college, and there is no great harm in that. 1873 W. S. Tyler Hist. Amherst Coll. 49 Rev. Timothy M. Cooley.., afterwards so famous as a teacher of rusticated students. 1914 Forum Feb. 218 The tranquil beauty of a ripening orchard thus became for one at least of the rusticated students a truer cloister than his college shades. 1977 B. Brugger Contemp. China i. 35 Some of the rusticated personnel did not regard their new position with equanimity. 2004 J. I. Dibua in P. T. Zeleza & A. Olukoshi Afr. Universities in 21st Cent. II. iv. ix. 467 The students resorted to the boycott of lectures..to press home their demand for the reinstatement of the expelled and rusticated student leaders. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2011; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < adj.1699 |
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