rubricate

American  

[roo-bri-keyt] / ˈru brɪˌkeɪt /

verb (used with object)

rubricated, rubricating

1. to mark or color with red.

2. to furnish with or regulate by rubrics.

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rubricate British  

/ ˈruːbrɪˌkeɪt /

verb

1. to print (a book or manuscript) with red titles, headings, etc

2. to mark in red

3. to supply with or regulate by rubrics

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Other Word Forms

• rubrication
  noun
• rubricator
  noun

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

Example Sentences

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rubricate rubricated

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 Roget, Peter Mark

The rubricated titles are of somewhat later date than the body of the text.

From The Letters of Cassiodorus Being A Condensed Translation Of The Variae Epistolae Of Magnus Aurelius Cassiodorus Senator by Hodgkin, Thomas

“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 Pollard, Alfred W. (Alfred William)

This was a copy in the original, published at Antwerp in 1603, prettily rubricated, and elaborately adorned with some forty or fifty copperplates illustrative of the text.

From The Love Affairs of a Bibliomaniac by Field, Eugene

These are folios of April, All the library of spring, Missals gilt and rubricated With the frost's illumining.

From Chimneysmoke by Morley, Christopher

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 Hopkins, Edward Washburn