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noun

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

(a)

A titlepage, or part of it, especially that giving the date and place of printing; also, the initial letters, etc., when printed in red.

(b)

(Law books) The title of a statute; so called as being anciently written in red letters.

(c)

(Liturgies) The directions and rules for the conduct of service, formerly written or printed in red; hence, also, an ecclesiastical or episcopal injunction; usually in the plural. "All the clergy in England solemnly pledge themselves to observe the rubrics."

(d)

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."

verb

Rubric v. t. To adorn ith red; to redden; to rubricate. (R.)

adjective

Rubrical, Rubric adj.

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?"

Of or pertaining to the rubric or rubrics. "Rubrical eccentricities."

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"Rubric" Quotes from Famous Books

... time you dissuaded me from elaborating the idea, and I abandoned it; now, in searching through old papers, I find the plot again, and cannot refrain from executing it in prose; for it may then pass as a tale, a rubric under which an extremely large ...

— The German Classics of The Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries, Vol. II • Editor-in-Chief: Kuno Francke

... that the divine Service be performed regularly and decently according to the Rubric, and exhort and direct thereto; with Abundance more of such Things as these, which might easily be done, if attempted in an easy, mild Manner; which might prove of wonderful Advantage to the Good of Vertue ...

— The Present State of Virginia • Hugh Jones

... of the English text," as I have called it for brevity in the marginal rubric, has been disapproved by Mr. de Khanikoff, a critic worthy of high respect. But I must repeat that the duties of a translator, and of the Editor of an original text, at least where the various recensions bear so peculiar a relation to each other as in this case, ...

— The Travels of Marco Polo Volume 1 • Marco Polo and Rustichello of Pisa

... "Not at all. The rubric says in the most forcible manner that the owner of the blade, 'in vaginam', shall be one. If the Pope were in possession of it he would be able, through a magical operation known to me, to cut off one of the ears of every Christian king who might ...

— The Memoires of Casanova, Complete • Jacques Casanova de Seingalt

... 338, f^o 28a-31a, with the rubric: De lictera et ammonitione beatissimi patris nostri Francisci quam misit fratribus ad capitulum quando erat infirmus. This letter was wrongly divided into three by Rodolfo di Tossignano (f^o 237), who ...

— Life of St. Francis of Assisi • Paul Sabatier

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