rusticate
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When Mitchell was court-martialed in 1925 for his obstreperous advocacy of air power, his friend & follower Hap Arnold was sent off to rusticate at Fort Riley.
From Time Magazine Archive
In summer, the Niebuhrs rusticate at Heath, Mass., near the Vermont line.
From Time Magazine Archive
Franco, who has yet to commit himself unequivocally to restoration of the monarchy, sought to rusticate the prince and his prospective bride outside Madrid.
From Time Magazine Archive
In other words, as far as the Soviet-dominated government in Prague is concerned, Dub?ek's main job in Ankara is to rusticate.
From Time Magazine Archive
He got into a preposterous scrape at Oxford, and forced the authorities to rusticate him.
From Hours in a Library New Edition, with Additions. Vol. II (of 3) by Sir Leslie Stephen
Two students were rusticated, or dismissed, by their colleges for climbing King's College Chapel in June 1937.
From BBC ● Apr. 10, 2019
Columns were piled on pilasters, rusticated plinths groaned under heaving cornices and every junction was elaborated with a twiddly moulding.
From The Guardian ● Sep. 12, 2017
The couple rusticated themselves to Bennington, Vt., where he was a teacher and she — as far as the neighbors knew — was a housewife, raising four talkative children.
From New York Times ● Jul. 27, 2015
Mr. Mellencamp also rusticated and backdated his music, adding folky instruments to his band and modeling his newer songs on Woody Guthrie, Johnny Cash and the blues.
From New York Times ● Feb. 20, 2011
I guess this was the rusticated equivalent of coming out.
From "The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate" by Jacqueline Kelly
On this Maine island, vacation is for rusticating.
From Washington Post ● Sep. 16, 2021
A quiet, brooding sense of menace settles in right at the beginning, which finds Mr. Clooney, his silver hair complemented by a snowy beard, rusticating in the snowy Swedish countryside.
From New York Times ● Aug. 31, 2010
Dona meets him while she is rusticating, away from it all, on her husband's Cornish estate.
From Time Magazine Archive
As they left town for England's long Easter holiday, rusticating members of His Majesty's Government ignored a Laborite M. P. who attempted the role of Cassandra.
From Time Magazine Archive
He looked like a rusticating college professor—of Greek, say—and this theory seemed to be supported by his obvious ignorance as to how to keep a canoe on the popular side of the water.
From Captivating Mary Carstairs by Raymond Moreau Crosby
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