Definitions

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • transitive verb To arrange, write, or print as a rubric.
  • transitive verb To provide with rubrics.

from The Century Dictionary.

  • Represented in red; having red coloring, in whole or in part.
  • 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.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • adjective Marked with red.
  • transitive verb To mark or distinguished with red; to arrange as in a rubric; to establish in a settled and unchangeable form.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • verb To write in the form of a rubric
  • verb To create rubrication

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

  • verb place in the church calendar as a red-letter day honoring a saint
  • verb sign with a mark instead of a name
  • verb furnish with rubrics or regulate by rubrics
  • verb decorate (manuscripts) with letters painted red

Etymologies

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition

[Late Latin rūbrīcāre, rūbrīcāt-, to color red, from Latin rūbrīcātus, rubricated, from rūbrīca, rubric; see rubric.]

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  • see rubric.

    July 24, 2008