Nominal Forms
Infinitive: to rusticate
Participle: rusticated
Gerund: rusticating
Cognates
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Indicative
Present
| I | rusticate |
| you | rusticate |
| he;she;it | rusticates |
| we | rusticate |
| you | rusticate |
| they | rusticate |
Perfect
| I | have rusticated |
| you | have rusticated |
| he;she;it | has rusticated |
| we | have rusticated |
| you | have rusticated |
| they | have rusticated |
Past
| I | rusticated |
| you | rusticated |
| he;she;it | rusticated |
| we | rusticated |
| you | rusticated |
| they | rusticated |
Pluperfect
| I | had rusticated |
| you | had rusticated |
| he;she;it | had rusticated |
| we | had rusticated |
| you | had rusticated |
| they | had rusticated |
Future
| I | will rusticate |
| you | will rusticate |
| he;she;it | will rusticate |
| we | will rusticate |
| you | will rusticate |
| they | will rusticate |
Future Perfect
| I | will have rusticated |
| you | will have rusticated |
| he;she;it | will have rusticated |
| we | will have rusticated |
| you | will have rusticated |
| they | will have rusticated |
Subjunctive
Present
| I | rusticate |
| you | rusticate |
| he;she;it | rusticate |
| we | rusticate |
| you | rusticate |
| they | rusticate |
Perfect
| I | have rusticated |
| you | have rusticated |
| he;she;it | have rusticated |
| we | have rusticated |
| you | have rusticated |
| they | have rusticated |
Imperfect
| I | rusticated |
| you | rusticated |
| he;she;it | rusticated |
| we | rusticated |
| you | rusticated |
| they | rusticated |
Pluperfect
| I | had rusticated |
| you | had rusticated |
| he;she;it | had rusticated |
| we | had rusticated |
| you | had rusticated |
| they | had rusticated |
Conditional
Present
| I | would rusticate |
| you | would rusticate |
| he;she;it | would rusticate |
| we | would rusticate |
| you | would rusticate |
| they | would rusticate |
Perfect
| I | would have rusticated |
| you | would have rusticated |
| he;she;it | would have rusticated |
| we | would have rusticated |
| you | would have rusticated |
| they | would have rusticated |
Imperative
| you | rusticate |
| we | Let's rusticate |
| you | rusticate |
Verbs conjugated like 'rusticate'
abacinate,
abalienate,
abase,
abate,
abbreviate,
abdicate,
abduce,
aberrate,
aberuncate,
abirritate,
abjudge,
abjudicate,
abjugate,
abjure,
ablactate,
ablaqueate,
able,
ablegate,
abligate,
abnegate, etc. (List truncated at 20 verbs)
Verbs similar to 'rusticate'
busticate,
auspicate,
fustigate,
masticate,
rubricate,
rusticise,
rusticize,
rutilate,
urticate,
æstimate,
Synonyms & Antonyms
Additional Information
Phrasal Verbs
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).
Sample Sentences
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The college rusticated him after he failed all his exams.
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I was very unwell, so I had to rusticate for a year.
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Pen looked at his early acquaintance,—who had been plucked, who had been rusticated, who had only, after repeated failures, learned to read and write correctly, and who, in spite of all these drawbacks, had attained the honour of a degree. [1848 November – 1850 December, William Makepeace Thackeray, chapter XXI, in The History of Pendennis. […], volume (please specify |volume=I or II), London: Bradbury and Evans, […], published 1849–1850, →OCLC:]
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"You don't think he'll rusticate us, or any thing of that sort?" said Tom, who had felt horrible twinges at the captain's picture of the effects of rustication on ordinary mortals. [1859–1861, [Thomas Hughes], “The Captain’s Notions”, in Tom Brown at Oxford: […], part 1st, Boston, Mass.: Ticknor and Fields, published 1861, →OCLC, page 192:]
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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. [1887, A[rthur] Conan Doyle, “A Study in Scarlet”, in Beeton’s Christmas Annual, London; New York, N.Y.: Ward, Lock & Co., part I (Being a reprint from the reminiscences of John H. Watson, M.D., […]), chapter I (Mr. Sherlock Holmes), page 2:]