Definition of: rusticate

(rus′tə·kāt) v. ·cat·ed, ·cat·ing v.i.
1. To go to the country.
2. To stay or live in the country.
—v.t.
3. To send or banish to the country.
4. Brit. To suspend (a student) and send away temporarily, as from a college.
5. To make rustic.
6. To construct (masonry) with rusticwork. [<L rusticatus, pp. of rusticari rusticate <rusticus. See RUSTIC.]
—rus′ti·ca′tion noun
—rus′ti·ca′tor noun