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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

... prayer the greatest freedom was granted the minister by the Book of Common Order. Calvin had prescribed a form of confession, the uniform use of which he required, but the general confession with which the service of the Book of Common Order opened, was governed by this rubric: ...

— Presbyterian Worship - Its Spirit, Method and History • Robert Johnston

... Fra Mauro (1459) near the extreme point of Africa which he calls Cavo de Diab, and which is suggestive of the Cape of Good Hope, but was really perhaps Cape Corrientes, there is a rubric inscribed with the following remarkable story: "About the year of Our Lord 1420 a ship or junk of India in crossing the Indian Sea was driven by way of the Islands of Men and Women beyond the Cape of Diab, and carried between the Green Islands and ...

— The Travels of Marco Polo, Volume 2 • Marco Polo and Rustichello of Pisa

... slightest interest and moment. Indeed, this was hardly to be wondered at; for the priest, so far as I could understand his gabble, took the larger portion for read, after muttering the first words of the rubric. A little carven image of an acolyte—a weird boy who seemed to move by springs, whose hair had all the semblance of painted wood, and whose complexion was white and red like a clown's—did not make matters more intelligible by spasmodically ...

— Sketches and Studies in Italy and Greece • John Addington Symonds

... along up the stream, chattering as if there were no rubric of silence in the angler's code. Presently another simple-minded troutling falls a victim to their unpremeditated art; and they begin already, being human, to wish for something larger. In the very last pool that they dare attempt—a dark hole under ...

— Little Rivers - A Book Of Essays In Profitable Idleness • Henry van Dyke

... bring down an anathema on his own head, [491] In spite of the authority of the Ephesian Fathers, the majority of the Commissioners determined to leave the Athanasian Creed in the Prayer Book; but they proposed to add a rubric drawn up by Stillingfleet, which declared that the damnatory clauses were to be understood to apply only to such as obstinately denied the substance of the Christian Faith. Orthodox believers were therefore ...

— The History of England from the Accession of James II. - Volume 3 (of 5) • Thomas Babington Macaulay

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