rubrical

[roo-bri-kuhl]

adjective

1. reddish; marked with red.

2. of, pertaining to, contained in, or prescribed by rubrics, especially liturgical rubrics.

Other Word Forms

• rubrically adverb
• unrubrical adjective
• unrubrically adverb

Word History and Origins

Origin of rubrical¹

1635–45; rubric + -al ¹ ( def. )

Example Sentences

Half a century later the famous Gaon Seadiah, also of Sura, issued his Siddūr, in which the rubrical matter is in Arabic.

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No doubt, in some rubrical works, express mention is made of the stole and cope, and still more frequently of one or the other; but the Roman Ritual, as we said, does not prescribe either at the office of the dead, and when their use is pointed out, it generally refers to the cathedral churches, where the ceremonies are carried out with greater pomp and solemnity, than in those rural churches to which our correspondent refers.

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The rubrical direction at the beginning of the Burial Office in our Prayer Book seems to imply some such provision at the churchyard entrance.

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—What is the meaning, and whence the origin of the sectional sign �, so much used in the Bible, and also at the head of the rubrical instructions in the Book of Common Prayer?

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Thus the Egyptian who wrote this Arabic note, observing the name of Thecla in the now mutilated upper margin of the Codex, where such rubrical notes are commonly placed by later hands, may have hastily concluded that she wrote the book, and so perplexed our Biblical critics.

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