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Definition of Rubricate

1. Verb. Place in the church calendar as a red-letter day honoring a saint. "She was rubricated by the pope"

2. Verb. Furnish with rubrics or regulate by rubrics. "The manuscript is not rubricated"

3. Verb. Decorate (manuscripts) with letters painted red. "In this beautiful book, all the place names are rubricated"

4. Verb. Sign with a mark instead of a name.

Definition of Rubricate

1. a. Marked with red.

2. v. t. To mark or distinguished with red; to arrange as in a rubric; to establish in a settled and unchangeable form.

Definition of Rubricate

1. Verb. To write in the form of a rubric ¹

2. Verb. To create rubrication ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Rubricate

1. [v -CATED, -CATING, -CATES]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Rubricate

ruboff ruboffs rubor rubout rubouts rubratoxin rubredoxin rubredoxin-NAD+ reductase rubredoxin-oxygen oxidoreductase rubredoxins

rubrene rubriblast rubric rubrical rubrically rubricate (current term) rubricated rubricates rubricating rubrication

rubrications rubricator rubricators rubrician rubricians rubricity rubrick rubrics rubricyte rubrobulbar tract

Literary usage of Rubricate

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Acts and Monuments of John Foxe: With a Life of the Martyrologist, and by John Foxe, George Townsend (1844)
"... than any other of his new shrined saints, whom he hath so dignified in his calendar ; for the one he doth rubricate only with his red letters, ..."

2. Gatherings from Spain by Richard Ford (1846)
"Although he could barely write his name, he could rubricate * as well as any ... Those who cannot write rubricate; " No saber firmar,"—not to know how to ..."

3. Translation of the Civil Code in Force in Cuba, Porto Rico, and the Philippines by Cuba, Puerto Rico, Philippines, Spain (1899)
"If the testator writes it in person, he shall rubricate all the sheets and affix his signature at the end, after mentioning all the words corrected, erased, ..."

4. Translation of the Civil Code in Force in Cuba, Porto Rico, and the by Cuba, Puerto Rico, Philippines, Spain (1899)
"If the testator writes it in person, he shall rubricate all the sheets and affix his signature at the end, after mentioning all the words corrected ..."

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