0 a simple or old-fashioned style of living or decoration that is typical of the countryside:
He had become accustomed to rustication in Blairgowrie, where the locals call him Bill.
Its bold facade is a mixture of rustication and decoration.
1 the act of making someone leave a place, especially a private school or Oxford or Cambridge University, as a punishment:
He was attacking the arbitrary power of deportation and rustication which existed at that time in a great many colonial and dependent territories.
This matter is related to rustication and restriction.
I was at pains to say that rustication should be accompanied by judicial inquiry.
Some kind of rustication should have taken place in respect of the parents.
I see no harm in the whole procedure for discipline, even if it does not involve expulsion or rustication, being drawn up and known by all concerned.
There was a long period of rustication.
The entrance portico has six freestanding columns, rustication at the base, lintels, and quoins, and a large slate-shingled hip roof.
The bell tower is decorated with rustication, and is divided into six levels, including the lantern at the top.
