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rusticate

[ UK /ɹˈʌstɪkˌe‍ɪt/ ]
VERB
  1. lend a rustic character to
    rusticate the house in the country
  2. suspend temporarily from college or university, in England
  3. send to the country
    He was rusticated for his bad behavior
  4. give (stone) a rustic look
  5. live in the country and lead a rustic life

How To Use rusticate In A Sentence

  • All architectural projections and rusticated surfaces are of reconstituted stone.
  • The windows are surmounted by rusticated wooden jack arches with superimposed keystones, and a heavy modillion cornice crowns the bold Georgian proportions of the facade.
  • The three lowest horizontal bands of the lower portico's elegantly rusticated facade frame ten light and ventilation shafts for the basement, a flat keystone resting above each of the nearly square openings.
  • Sansovino could have designed a rusticated flat arch for the herms to carry, or even a simple Tuscan entablature without metopes and triglyphs, but instead he chose the Doric.
  • The windows are surmounted by rusticated wooden jack arches with superimposed keystones, and a heavy modillion cornice crowns the bold Georgian proportions of the facade.
  • His predilection for gray-greens, gray-pinks, pale ochers, browns, blacks and a luminous cobalt blue call up archaic Mediterranean origins, rusticated walls and early Italian frescoes.
  • They rusticated in villages off the beaten track for nearly fifteen years.
  • He was educated at Rugby and at Trinity College, Oxford, where he was rusticated.
  • A lady below the rank of duchess was likely to be rusticated from the court if she sat upon a cushioned stool in the royal chapel or, if in the presence of the King, anywhere else.
  • The final seven rusticated bands are precisely linked to the voussoirs and keystones that define the arches and the niches, the latter exactly the same height as the rectangular openings below.
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