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
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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 paper was to be of hand-made linen, from the Kelmscott Mills; the type black-letter, with rubricated initials.
From Martin Luther King, Jr. Day, 1995, Memorial Issue by Various
The bare fact that hymns are found rubricated in the later literature is surely no reason for believing that such hymns were made for the ritual.
From The Religions of India Handbooks on the History of Religions, Volume 1, Edited by Morris Jastrow by Edward Washburn Hopkins
The monks of Canterbury claimed to possess the books on pink vellum, with rubricated capitals, which Pope Gregory had sent to Augustine.
From The Great Book-Collectors by Charles Isaac Elton
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
The same year he picked up for ten shillings, in London, an early sixteenth-century folio, rubricated and with illuminated initials.
From The Book-Hunter at Home by P. B. M. Allan
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