Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- v. To arrange, write, or print as a rubric.
- v. To provide with rubrics.
- v. To establish rules for.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- To mark or distinguish with red; illuminate with red letters, words, etc., as a manuscript or book. See rubrication and rubricator.
- To formulate as a rubric; arrange as rubrics or precepts; provide with rubrics.
- Represented in red; having red coloring, in whole or in part.
Wiktionary
- v. To write in the form of rubric
- v. To create rubrication
GNU Webster's 1913
- adj. Marked with red.
- v. To mark or distinguished with red; to arrange as in a rubric; to establish in a settled and unchangeable form.
WordNet 3.0
- v. place in the church calendar as a red-letter day honoring a saint
- v. sign with a mark instead of a name
- v. furnish with rubrics or regulate by rubrics
- v. decorate (manuscripts) with letters painted red
Etymologies
- Late Latin rūbrīcāre, rūbrīcāt-, to color red, from Latin rūbrīcātus, rubricated, from rūbrīca, rubric; see rubric. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)
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C. S. Bird – Grandiloquent Dictionary
All the words from the Grandiloquent Dictionary.
946 of these 2700 words do not yield any results in six different dictionaries, hence many of them might be misspellings.
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karnage's Words
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Red
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