rusticate

/ˈrʌstɪkeɪt/

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin rūsticātus, perfect active participle of rūsticor (“to live in the countryside”) (see -ate (verb-forming suffix)), originally in the same sense. First attested in the mid-17th century. By surface analysis, rustic + -ate (verb-forming suffix).

Why this word is great

RUSTICATE — [Verb] To compel to live in or send to the countryside; to cause to become rustic. From Latin rūsticātus, perfect participle of rūsticor ("to live in the countryside"), from rūsticus ("rustic, rural") + -ate (verb-forming suffix). Unlike "urbanize" (which draws one toward the clamor of streets and steel) or "sojourn" (which suggests a passing, voluntary stay), "rusticate" carries the weight of exile, of being tucked away among fields and silence. It is the city-dweller banished to a crumbling stone cottage, the scholar sent to ponder under ancient oaks, or the prisoner of war made to till soil instead of plotting escape—each a reluctant witness to the slow, indifferent rhythms of the earth. To rusticate is to remember that simplicity is not always chosen, and that solitude can be as much a sentence as a reprieve.

verb

To be suspended or expelled temporarily from the university, either compulsorily or voluntarily.“The college rusticated him after he failed all his exams.”
To construct so as to produce jagged or heavily textured surfaces.
To compel to live in or to send to the countryside; to cause to become rustic.
To go to reside in the country.“So alarming did the state of my finances become, that I soon realized that I must either leave the metropolis and rusticate somewhere in the country, or that I must make a complete alteration in my style of living.”