rubricate
Americanverb (used with object)
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to mark or color with red.
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to furnish with or regulate by rubrics.
verb
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to print (a book or manuscript) with red titles, headings, etc
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to mark in red
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to supply with or regulate by rubrics
Other Word Forms
Etymology
Origin of rubricate
1560–70; < Late Latin rūbrīcātus (past participle of rūbrīcāre to color red), equivalent to rūbrīc ( a ) red ocher ( see rubric) + -ātus -ate 1
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V. be red, become red &c. adj.; blush, flush, color up, mantle, redden. render red &c. adj.; redden, rouge; rubify†, rubricate; incarnadine.; ruddle†.
From Roget's Thesaurus of English Words and Phrases by Peter Mark Roget
The Bestiary is written continuously, but the initials of the lines and, in the long metres, of the half lines are mostly rubricated....
From Selections from early Middle English, 1130-1250 Part I: Texts by Joseph Hall
The black-letter type, with rubricated initials, signified a philosophic pessimism enlightened by the conviction that in duty one might find, after all, an excuse for life and a hope for humanity.
From Martin Luther King, Jr. Day, 1995, Memorial Issue by Various
It is printed on antique paper of special quality, with rubricated initials and spacious margins.
From Law and Laughter by George A. (George Alexander) Morton
“Costeriana,” group of books so called, 39-41, 72 Cotton, Sir Robert, his collections, 2 Cranach, Lucas, his bookwork at Wittenberg, 190 Cremer, Heinrich, copy of 42-line Bible rubricated by, 47 sq.
From Fine Books by Alfred W. (Alfred William) Pollard
Only in the middle there was a rubricated card, very neatly painted by hand, with these words— Buy Ponderevo's Cough Linctus NOW.
From Tono Bungay by H. G. (Herbert George) Wells
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