Rubric — Defs

01 n. That part of any work in the early manuscripts and typography which was colored red, to distinguish it from other portions.

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That part of any work in the early manuscripts and typography which was colored red, to distinguish it from other portions.(Law books)
“All the clergy in England solemnly pledge themselves to observe the rubrics.” — Hook.
2.
Hence, that which is established or settled, as by authority; a thing definitely settled or fixed.
“Nay, as a duty, it had no place or rubric in human conceptions before Christianity.” — De Quincey.

02 v. t. To adorn ith red; to redden; to rubricate.

03 a. Colored in, or marked with, red; placed in rubrics.

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Colored in, or marked with, red; placed in rubrics.
“What though my name stood rubric on the walls Or plaistered posts, with claps, in capitals?” — Pope.
2.
Of or pertaining to the rubric or rubrics.