rustication
Also called rustic work .Architecture. any of various forms of ashlar so dressed and tooled that the visible faces are raised above or otherwise contrasted with the horizontal and usually the vertical joints.
the act of a person or thing that rusticates.
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How to use rustication in a sentence
The university, too, came to its senses and revoked the rustication of the students.
India Row Evokes Cricket’s Ultranationalist Tebbit Test | Tunku Varadarajan | March 23, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTIt is, however, I believe, sometimes supposed that rustication gives an appearance of solidity to foundation stones.
The Stones of Venice, Volume I (of 3) | John RuskinSeven days' rustication had wrought a marked change in the town-bred girl.
Husks | Marion HarlandHere, to recover from a state of debility thus produced, a year's rustication has been found necessary.
Essays on Education and Kindred Subjects | Herbert SpencerFormal corporal punishment would have rendered rustication unnecessary.
Life of John Milton | Richard Garnett
What else is it than to suffer exile within the same walls, actual rustication?
The History of Rome, Books 01 to 08 | Titus Livius
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