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

First initial rubricated in the same style and by the same hand as in the De duobus amantibus.

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

Such was Captain Daniel's rubricated copy of the Buccaneers' Λειτονργία.

From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 10, No. 59, September, 1862 by Various

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

It bears traces of many hands; and betrays in the dialogue of the formal characters the rubricated lines of the church play on which it was based.

From "Everyman," with other interludes, including eight miracle plays by Rhys, Ernest

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