MEANING
1. To give masonry a deliberately rough or strongly jointed surface.
2. To suspend someone from a university, especially in traditional British usage.
3. To live or spend time in the countryside, away from city life.
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Words that belong together
- rusticate stonework
- rusticated masonry
On the page
The builders rusticated the ground-floor stonework to give the facade greater weight.
Nearby words
Word forms
- Base
- rusticate
- Past tense
- rusticated
- Past participle
- rusticated
- Present participle
- rusticating
Full tense & aspect guide
- Present
- rusticate
- Present continuous
- am/is/are rusticating
- Present perfect
- have/has rusticated
- Present perfect continuous
- have/has been rusticating
- Past
- rusticated
- Past continuous
- was/were rusticating
- Past perfect
- had rusticated
- Past perfect continuous
- had been rusticating
- Future
- will rusticate
- Future continuous
- will be rusticating
- Future perfect
- will have rusticated
- Future perfect continuous
- will have been rusticating
Choose the auxiliary that agrees with your subject. These are constructions of one word, not separate entries.
Usage notes
Primary category: architecture / spatial description. Forms: rusticate; rusticates; rusticated; rusticated; rusticating Legacy lexical fields mirror sense 1 only. Use numbered sense fields for all meanings. Established modern English lexical item. No separate regional spelling or grammatical inflection entry. Commonness: uncommon. Third-person singular: rusticates.
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