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rubricated

American  
[roo-bri-key-tid] / ˈru brɪˌkeɪ tɪd /

adjective

  1. (in ancient manuscripts, early printed books, etc.) having titles, catchwords, etc., distinctively colored.


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Etymology

Origin of rubricated

First recorded in 1595–1605; rubricate + -ed 2

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They are rubricated, and the nine stanzas form part of a prescribed service.

From The Religions of India Handbooks on the History of Religions, Volume 1, Edited by Morris Jastrow by Edward Washburn Hopkins

Space before ðar: ð rubricated and red afterwards erased MS. ðus ge tileð ðar     wiles ge time haueð. so it her telleð.

From Selections from early Middle English, 1130-1250 Part I: Texts by Joseph Hall

Illness, poverty, and despair are given rubricated pages.

From The Spinster Book by Myrtle Reed

But what of color—splendid initials in red, blue, or green, rubricated headings, lines, or paragraphs?

From The Booklover and His Books by Harry Lyman Koopman

All are in the same type, the heavy-faced gothic of his second font, are rubricated by the same hand, and though two of them are undated, were all evidently printed at about the same time.

From Catalogue of the William Loring Andrews Collection of Early Books in the Library of Yale University by Addison Van Name

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