RUBRICATE

rubricate

(verb) sign with a mark instead of a name

miniate, rubricate

(verb) decorate (manuscripts) with letters painted red; “In this beautiful book, all the place names are rubricated”

rubricate

(verb) furnish with rubrics or regulate by rubrics; “the manuscript is not rubricated”

rubricate

(verb) place in the church calendar as a red-letter day honoring a saint; “She was rubricated by the pope”

Source: WordNet® 3.1


Etymology

Adjective

rubricate (comparative more rubricate, superlative most rubricate)

(obsolete) Marked with red.

Verb

rubricate (third-person singular simple present rubricates, present participle rubricating, simple past and past participle rubricated)

(transitive) To write in the form of a rubric.

To create rubrication; to illuminate a manuscript with red letters.

Anagrams

• bicrurate

Source: Wiktionary


Ru"bri*cate, a. Etym: [L. rubricatus p.p. of rubricare to color red. See Rubric, n.]

Definition: Marked with red. Sp

Ru"bri*cate, v. t.

Definition: To mark or distinguished with red; to arrange as in a rubric; to establish in a settled and unchangeable form. Foxe. A system . . . according to which the thoughts of men were to be classed and rubricated forever after. Hare.

Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition



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