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
Robin Hood, Don 10 Quixote, and George Borrow are rubricated saints in my calendar.
From The Madness of May by Frederic Dorr Steele
This innovation, designed to imitate the rubricated initials of the manuscripts, involved great technical difficulties in the presswork, and was not generally adopted.
From Printing and the Renaissance A paper read before the Fortnightly Club of Rochester, New York by John Rothwell Slater
In decorating, one artist rubricated, another painted the miniatures.
From Old English Libraries by Ernest Albert Savage
Illness, poverty, and despair are given rubricated pages.
From The Spinster Book by Myrtle Reed
Folio, calf, fine copy, rubricated capitals, gilt edges. 16s.
From Notes and Queries, Number 12, January 19, 1850 by Various
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