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Papageno (4915 words)
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2007bee-r03, by prakash
Bness's list, by Bness
Abnegation, by wajo22
Man Unmade, by dontcry
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Scipio, who would have liked better to see me once more blazing at court, than either cloistered or rusticated, advised me to shew my face at the cardinal's audience.
- Lesage, The Adventures of Gil Blas of Santillane, tr. Smollett, bk 10 ch. 1
"Alfred Yule, with his wife and daughter, rusticated somewhere in Kent."
George Gissing, New Grub Street.
Haha! That's a much better definition than the real one, Bness. ;-)
"The sophomores were rusticated for their involvement in the university protests."
When I first came across this word in University, I took it to mean - suspended till your brain starts to rust.
In ancient universities like Oxford and Cambridge, this means to suspend a student - presumably resulting in their return to their country house.