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rustication

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rus⋅ti⋅ca⋅tion

  [ruhs-ti-key-shuhn]
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–noun
1. Also called rustic work. Architecture. any of various forms of ashlar so dressed and tooled that the visible faces are raised above or otherwise contrasted with the horizontal and usually the vertical joints.
2. the act of a person or thing that rusticates.
Origin:
1615–25; < L rūsticātiōn- (s. of rūsticātiō). See rusticate, -ion
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rus·ti·cate   (rŭs'tĭ-kāt')   
v.   rus·ti·cat·ed, rus·ti·cat·ing, rus·ti·cates

v.   intr.
To go to or live in the country.
v.   tr.

  1. To send to the country.

  2. Chiefly British To suspend (a student) from a university.

  3. To cut or shape (masonry blocks) so as to create a bold textured look, often by beveling the edges to form deep-set joints while leaving the central face rough-hewn or carved with various pointed or channeled patterns.


[Latin rūsticārī, rūsticāt-, from rūsticus, rustic; see rustic.]
rus'ti·ca'tion n., rus'ti·ca'tor n.
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