verb. (university).—To banish by way of punishment; TO SEND DOWN (q.v.). Hence RUSTICATION (GROSE).
1714. Spectator, 596. After this I was deeply in love with a milliner, and at last with my bed-maker; upon which I was sent away, or, in the university phrase, RUSTICATED for ever.
1779. JOHNSON, Life of Milton, 12. It seems plain … that he had incurred RUSTICATION … with perhaps the loss of a term.
1794. Gentleman’s Magazine, 1085. And was very near RUSTICATION, merely for kicking up a row after a beakering party.
1841. LEVER, Charles O’Malley, lxxix. Cecil Cavendish … has been RUSTICATED for immersing four bricklayers in that green receptacle of stagnant water and duckweed yclept “the Haha.”
1843. THACKERAY, Fitz-Boodle’s Confessions. Then came demand for an apology; refusal on my part; appeal to the dean; convocation; and RUSTICATION of George Savage Fitz-Boodle.
1853. REV. E. BRADLEY (‘Cuthbert Bede’), The Adventures of Mr. Verdant Green, an Oxford Freshman, iv. Our hero … missed the moral of the story and took the RUSTICATION for a kind forgiveness of injuries.
1885. Daily Telegraph, 29 Oct. Students who are liable at any moment to be RUSTICATED.
