word of the day: rusticate

The word of the day is rusticate:

Etymology:  < classical Latin rusticāt-, past participial stem (see -ate suffix³) of rusticārī to live or stay in the country, to work in the country, to practise farming, in post-classical Latin also to speak like a rustic (5th cent.) 

1. intr.a. To stay or live in the countryside; to live a quiet country life. 

b. To live or spend time in seclusion, esp. enforcedly. 

2. trans. To make rustic or rural in nature or character; to countrify. Usu. in pass. 

3. trans.a. To dismiss or send down (a student) from university on a temporary basis, as a punishment; to suspend. 

b. To send (a person) into the countryside. Also in extended use. Also refl.: to settle oneself in the countryside. 

4. trans. Archit. To make rustic in appearance or style; esp. to roughen (the surface of masonry, etc.) (OED)

"Hoving had been, to put it mildly, an unpromising youth.  For example, after slugging a teacher he had been expelled from Exeter.  As a freshman at Princeton, his highest accomplishment was 'flagrant neglect'.  How did Peck's rusticated youth ever become an art historian and the director of one of the world's greatest museums?"

 - John McPhee, "Structure: beyond the picnic-table crisis", 14 January 2013 The New Yorker