rusticationn.
/ˌrʌstᵻˈkeɪʃn/, U.S. /ˌrəstəˈkeɪʃən/ 1.
a. The action of going to, spending time in, or living in the countryside; a stay in the country. Formerly also: †a rural pastime or occupation (obsolete). Now archaic.
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society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabiting a type of place > [noun] > the country
rusticationa1607
villeggiatura1742
ruralizing1817
the world > action or operation > doing > activity or occupation > [noun] > business claiming attention > an occupation or affair > rural
rusticationa1607
a1607 T. Brightman Comm. on Canticles vii, in Wks. (1644) 1066 The glory of Christs Kingdom shall not be full till this rustication.
1696 J. Evelyn Mem. (1857) III. 366 I confess I am foolishly fond of these and other rustications.
1700 S. Parker 6 Philos. Ess. 36 Invited by a Friend to share the pleasures of his rustication,..I scorn'd to decline the proffer.
1783 S. Johnson Let. 23 July (1994) IV. 175 Whether this short rustication has done me any good I cannot tell.
1805 C. Lamb Let. 28 Sept. in Lett. C. & M. A. Lamb (1976) II. 176 We have been [on] two tiny excursions this summer, for three or four days each..: and that is the total history of our Rustications this year.
1823 S. Smith Wks. (1859) II. 29/1 How absurd it would be to offer to the higher orders the exclusive use of peaches, nectarines, and apricots, as the premium of rustication.
1890 J. Dickie Words of Faith (1893) 342 I hope that your rustications, at this time, may set up your bodily vigour a little.
1905 E. Duncan Schubert 50 To so thorough a citizen as Schubert, rustication for half a year only made him turn the more eagerly towards Vienna.
1971 J. C. Reid Bucks & Bruisers iv. 58 Pleas'em recommends a few days' rustication;..Tom says goodbye to Corinthian Kate and sets off for the country.
2004 K. Huntington General's Daughter xvii. 137 I should warn you that Miss Grimsby is back in London after her rustication.
b. The condition of or associated with living in the countryside; a state of rural peacefulness or seclusion.
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society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabiting a type of place > [noun] > the country > country life
country lifec1565
rustication1732
society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabited place > district in relation to human occupation > country as opposed to town > [noun] > quality
rusticity1585
rurality1611
rustication1732
pastorality1821
ruralism1835
1732 J. Mawer Epist. to Earl of Oxf. 47 Pastureing a Flock..In rustication and ignoble Ease!
1771 T. Smollett Humphry Clinker I. 25 As there is nothing that can be called company at the well, I am here in a state of absolute rustication.
1809 B. H. Malkin tr. A. R. Le Sage Adventures Gil Blas II. iv. iv. 53 A young person brought up in a state of rustication, and..unacquainted with the manners of a court.
1927 P. S. Allen Let. 2 Aug. (1939) 249 Today in quest of rustication we came on to our old Noirague.
1997 E. Shorter Hist. Psychiatry vi. 192 One lived in rustication far from the medical centers with their state-of-the-art labs and great libraries.
2. Temporary dismissal from a university; suspension; an instance or period of this.
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society > education > educational administration > university administration > [noun] > punishment or dismissal
bannition1640
bannimus1654
rustication1710
rusa1890
1710 Instructive Libr. 11 Serious thoughts and Reflections on Rustication and Expulsion, to which are added some witty Remarks on Crabbid Tutours.
1734 in B. Peirce Hist. Harvard Univ. (1833) App. 142 All public admonitions, rustications, and degradations,..shall be by the President and Tutors.
1779 S. Johnson Milton in Pref. Wks. Eng. Poets II. 8 He had incurred Rustication; a temporary dismission into the country, with perhaps the loss of a term.
1854 ‘C. Bede’ Further Adventures Mr. Verdant Green (ed. 2) vi. 55 A humorous series of plucks, rustications, and heavy debts.
1887 E. Dowden Life Shelley I. iii. 122 A sentence of rustication might have sufficed for an offence against discipline.
1906 Oxf. Mag. 7 Feb. 194/2 The penalty of rustication would have the unusual unpleasantness of costing the delinquent the Eights.
1978 P. Henderson Tennyson, Poet & Prophet ii. 15 This behaviour [sc. missing lectures], together with his insolent attitude towards the authorities, resulted in his rustication.
2002 Econ. & Polit. Weekly 20 Apr. 1490/1 The report on the recent case of rustication of 10 dalit students at the Hyderabad Central University..faults the university on many accounts.
3. The action of sending or banishing a person to the countryside; the state of being banished in this way. Also: an instance of this.
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society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabiting temporarily > exile or state of > [noun] > to a place > to the country
rustication1751
1751 S. Johnson Rambler No. 195. ⁋12 His father, after some threats of rustication.., reduced the allowance of his pocket.
1806 in L. Hutchinson Mem. Col. Hutchinson 56 (note) From the moment of Cardinal Richelieu's coming into power under Louis the XIIIth, to Neckar's return to power after his rustication under Louis the XVIth.
1817 W. Scott Rob Roy I. ii. 46 I persuaded myself, that all I had to apprehend, was some temporary alienation of affection;—perhaps a rustication of a few weeks.
1869 H. F. Tozer Res. Highlands of Turkey I. 62 Athos..is used as a place of rustication for refractory prelates.
1905 G. H. Perris Russia in Revol. iii. 62 Administrative punishment..may end in simple rustication, or in a graver term of imprisonment or exile.
1978 Daily Tel. 28 Dec. 4/2 Mao's rustication programme under which more than 17 million young people have been sent from the cities to learn from peasants.
1996 A. Munro Arabian Affair xi. 232 The government began quietly to transfer some of the zealots..to smaller provincial towns... This exercise in rustication..contributed subsequently to a backlash of fanaticism.
4. Architecture.
a. The action or practice of rusticating masonry; the style of masonry produced by this. Cf. rusticate v. 4.
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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 > architecture > architectural ornament > [noun] > rustic work
rustic1610
rustic work1615
rustication1766
society > leisure > the arts > visual arts > architecture > architectural ornament > [noun] > rustic work > style
rusticity1730
rustication1766
1766 J. Gwynn London & Westm. Improved 45 The absurd rustication of the windows, and the heavy sills and trusses under them are unpardonable blemishes.
1841 Penny Cycl. XX. 272/1 Rustication..is now almost entirely banished from architectural design.
1895 Times 14 Jan. 14/2 A good building..spoilt by an abuse of ‘rustication’, which deprives it of all dignity.
1926 Art Bull. 8 146 The plain plaster walls relieved by accents of heavy rustication, so favored by the Florentine cinquecento, are also found.
1951 N. Pevsner Middlesex (Buildings of Eng.) 158 The tablet..also put up by him (in a Gibbsian frame of intermittent rustication).
1998 Victorian Soc. Jrnl. 1997 32/1 For a later building..Boardman placed with the Guntons the task of creating the sharply-angled bricks needed to create the heavy blocks of rustication.
b. A rustic feature or part; an area of rusticated masonry.
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society > leisure > the arts > visual arts > architecture > architectural ornament > [noun] > rustic work > feature or part
rustication1815
1815 T. Rickman in J. Smith Panorama Sci. & Art I. 174 An ornament..of large square blocks as parts of the shaft, which are called rustications, and are sometimes roughened.
1839 Civil Engineer & Architect's Jrnl. 2 381/1 The destruction of the form of the columns, rustications, &c.
1899 Jrnl. Royal Inst. Brit. Architects 20 May 393 In the Vauxhall Bridge design immense quoins, with a rustication of one foot projection from the wall-face, are carried round the archivolts.
1911 Archit. Rec. Dec. 545/1 Use a rustication strong enough to divert the eye from the solids and voids above.
1959 S. E. Rasmussen Experiencing Archit. (1964) 23 The lower part is made of stone with faceted rustications like projecting pyramids—so-called diamond ashlar.
1997 Internat. Jrnl. Afr. Hist. Stud. 30 352 The break with classicism, particularly from the familiar visual comfort of massive cornices,..rustications..and pediment windows, was very uneven.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2011; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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