Saturday, November 28, 2009
rusticate
\RUHS-tih-kayt\ , intransitive verb;1.
To go into or reside in the country; to pursue a rustic life.
1.
To require or compel to reside in the country; to banish or send away temporarily.
2.
(Chiefly British). To suspend from school or college.
3.
To build with usually rough-surfaced masonry blocks having beveled or rebated edges producing pronounced joints.
4.
To lend a rustic character to; to cause to become rustic
Quotes:
Ezra holds out in London, and refuses to rusticate.
-- T. S. Eliot to Conrad Aiken, "21 August 1916", The Letters of T. S. Eliot: Volume I, 1898-1922 edited by Valerie Eliot
For the longest time, we're stuck in a cabin hewn out of the ground in a parcel of woods as the boys hide and mend; for another, we rusticate on a farm bounded by fields that must be tilled by the hard labor of man and beast.
-- Stephen Hunter, "When Johnny Doesn't Come Marching Home", Washington Post, December 17, 1999
Czechoslovak Communists would imprison or rusticate those who had been active in the Prague Spring.
-- Charles S. Maier, Dissolution
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2 commenti:
Interesting word: I do not believe there is any semantically equivalent word in Italian
I LOVe this word.....*RUSTICATE*...It's one of my very favourite words...you didn't know that ..did you author.
You never really hear spoken in the uk....BUT...Mrs Krap used a lot in Scotland.... & people thought i made it up...si....I RUSTICATED there.......i surely..did...AND my arthritis WENT lot a worse living by the sea..SO MRS Mrs went RUSTY AS SHE RUSTICATED in rural galloway.
Grazie Author,for your word of the day.
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