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Rustication   Listen
noun
Rustication  n.  
1.
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.
2.
(Arch.) Rustic work.





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"Rustication" Quotes from Famous Books



... at present generally adopted in American colleges are warning, admonition, the letter home, suspension, rustication, and expulsion. Formerly they were more numerous, and their execution was attended with great solemnity. "The discipline of the College," says President Quincy, in his History of Harvard University, "was enforced and sanctioned ...
— A Collection of College Words and Customs • Benjamin Homer Hall


Words linked to "Rustication" :   United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, construction, rusticate, status, Britain, U.K., banishment, United Kingdom, UK, building, Great Britain, retirement


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