Meaning of ruralize | Babel Free

Definitions

1. To make rural; to give a rural character to (something or someone).
   transitive
2. To become rural; to take up residence or spend time in the country.
   intransitive

Examples

“the curling cloud / Of city smoke⟳, by distance ruralised”

“This tardy favorite of fortune […] thoroughly ruralized from head to foot, proceeded to escort us up the hill behind his house.”

“[…] the quiet bachelor house had its best rooms on the big garden, which seemed to advance into them through their wide windows and ruralize their dullness.”

“But it is also a collection of villages, a ruralized metropolis where people live⟳ by their wits and devices, cut⟳ off from the authorities, the law and often each other.”

“c. 1822, Charles Lamb, undated letter to John Howard Payne in The Letter of Charles Lamb, 1814-1825, Boston: The Bibliophile Society, Volume 4, pp. 197-198, I shall certainly attend⟳ your Farce, if in town; but as ’t is possible I shall ruralize this week, I will have⟳ no orders of you till next week.”

“[…] Letitia, who, except one jaunt to Margate, had never been out of the sound⟳ of Bow-bells, that she might ruralise after the fashion of the poets, sit⟳ under trees, and gather roses all day long;”

“[…] the passage which I recollect with the greatest pleasure in Cicero, is where he says that books delight us at home, and are no impediment abroad; travel⟳ with us, ruralise with us.”

“Then there is his Excellency the “royal Chamberlain”—a sinecure, for his majesty dresses himself with his own⟳ hands, except when he is ruralizing at Waikiki and then he requires no dressing.”

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