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 Roget, Peter Mark
Only in the middle there was a rubricated card, very neatly painted by hand, with these words— Buy Ponderevo's Cough Linctus NOW.
From Tono Bungay by Wells, H. G. (Herbert George)
With rubricated Initials and 12 full-page Photogravure Illustrations by Charles H. Woodbury and Marcia O. Woodbury. 12mo, gilt top, $1.50.
From Whittier-land A Handbook of North Essex, Containing Many Anecdotes of and Poems by John Greenleaf Whittier Never Before Collected. by Pickard, Samuel T. (Samuel Thomas)
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
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 Hopkins, Edward Washburn
It is printed on antique paper of special quality, with rubricated initials and spacious margins.
From Law and Laughter by Morton, George A. (George Alexander)
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