Antonyms for rusticating

Grammar : Verb

Spell : ruhs-ti-keyt

Phonetic Transcription : ˈrʌs tɪˌkeɪt

Definition of rusticating

Origin : 1650s, from Latin rusticatus, past participle of rusticarti "to live in the country" (see rustication). Related: Rusticated; rusticating.

As in retire : verb leave a place or responsibility
As in banish : verb expel from place or situation
As in superannuate : verb retire

Example sentences :

Society, in a body, appeared to be rusticating at Santa Catalina.
Extract from : « Mariposilla » by Mary Stewart Daggett

We are rusticating here by the side of a Wisconsin lake this summer.
Extract from : « Eugene Field, A Study In Heredity And Contradictions » by Slason Thompson

For even in rure it is evident that friends made it a duty of friendship to seek out and relieve their rusticating friends.
Extract from : « The Posthumous Works of Thomas De Quincey, Vol. 1 (2 vols) » by Thomas De Quincey

He feels that we suspect him of rusticating in bed under false pretences.
Extract from : « Life's Minor Collisions » by Frances Warner

It had "an aristocratical look in the summer time, when everybody but nobodies was rusticating."
Extract from : « Husks » by Marion Harland

While I have been rusticating at La Socapa, my brother limner has been busily employed on work in which he takes especial delight.
Extract from : « The Pearl of the Antilles, or An Artist in Cuba » by Walter Goodman

The president of your company is rusticating a few miles from here, Mrs. 144 Tucker asserted on the third.
Extract from : « The Best Policy » by Elliott Flower

There is always something of the rusticating city-scholar about his humour.
Extract from : « Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 9, Slice 6 » by Various

I thought you were cruising somewhere with Melford, or rusticating at Garston Hall.
Extract from : « A Crooked Path » by Mrs. Alexander

Synonyms for rusticating

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