rustication noun. [rʌstɪ'keɪʃ(ǝ)n] E17.
[Latin rusticatio(n-), formed as RUSTICATE: see -ATION.]
1. The action of going to, spending time in, or living in the country; a stay in the country. Formerly also, a rural pastime, practice, or occupation. E17.
b. = RUSTICITY 2. L18.

2. a. Temporary dismissal from a university; an instance or period of this. M18.
■ E. Longford The stiff sentence of a year's rustication.
b. The action of sending a person to the country; the state of being sent to the country. M18.
Daily Telegraph Mao's rustication programme under which..young people have been sent from the cities.

3. Architecture. A style of masonry in which the surface of the blocks is roughened; masonry cut in massive blocks separated from each other by deep joints; the action or practice of producing this. E19.
b. A rustic feature or element. M19.

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