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rustication
WORDNET DICTIONARY
Noun rustication has 5 senses
- rustication(n = noun.state) Array - the condition naturally attaching to life in the country; Array is a kind of condition, status
- rustication(n = noun.act) Array - the construction of masonry or brickwork in a rustic manner; Array is a kind of building, construction
- rustication(n = noun.act) Array - the action of retiring to and living in the country; Array is a kind of retirement
- rustication(n = noun.act) Array - temporary dismissal of a student from a university; Array is a kind of suspension, temporary removal
- rustication(n = noun.act) Array - banishment into the country; Array is a kind of banishment, proscription
Derived forms verb rusticate5, verb rusticate1
Derived forms verb rusticate5, verb rusticate4
Derived form verb rusticate1
Derived form verb rusticate3
Derived form verb rusticate2
CIDE DICTIONARY
rustication, n. [L. rusticatio.].
- The act of rusticating, or the state of being rusticated; specifically, the punishment of a student for some offense, by compelling him to leave the institution for a time. [1913 Webster]
- Rustic work. [1913 Webster]
ROGET THESAURUS
rustication
Exclusion
N exclusion, nonadmission, omission, exception, rejection, repudiation, exile, noninclusion, preclusion, prohibition, separation, segregation, seposition, elimination, expulsion, cofferdam, excluding, exclusive, excluded, unrecounted, not included in, inadmissible, exclusive of, barring, except, with the exception of, save, bating, exclusion, seclusion, exclusion, seclusion, privacy, retirement, reclusion, recess, snugness, delitescence, rustication, rus in urbe, solitude, solitariness, isolation, loneliness, estrangement from the world, voluntary exile, aloofness, cell, hermitage, convent, sanctum sanctorum, depopulation, desertion, desolation, wilderness, howling wilderness, rotten borough, Old Sarum, exclusion, excommunication, banishment, exile, ostracism, proscription, cut, cut direct, dead cut, inhospitality, inhospitableness, dissociability, domesticity, Darby and Joan, recluse, hermit, eremite, cenobite, anchoret, anchorite, Simon Stylites, troglodyte, Timon of Athens, Santon, solitaire, ruralist, disciple of Zimmermann, closet cynic, Diogenes, outcast, Pariah, castaway, pilgarlic, wastrel, foundling, wilding, secluded, sequestered, retired, delitescent, private, bye, out of the world, out of the way, the world forgetting by the world forgot, snug, domestic, stay-at-home, unsociable, unsocial, dissocial, inhospitable, cynical, inconversable, unclubbable, sauvage, troglodytic, solitary, lonely, lonesome, isolated, single, estranged, unfrequented, uninhabitable, uninhabited, tenantless, abandoned, deserted, deserted in one's utmost need, unfriended, kithless, friendless, homeless, lorn, forlorn, desolate, unvisited, unintroduced, uninvited, unwelcome, under a cloud, left to shift for oneself, derelict, outcast, banished, noli me tangere, among them but not of them, and homeless near a thousand homes I stood, far from the madding crowd's ignoble strife, makes a solitude and calls it peace, magna civitas magna solitudo, never less alone than when alone, O sacred solitude! divine retreat!.
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