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▪ I. rubricate, v.|ˈruːbrɪkeɪt|
[f. L. rubrīcāt-, ppl. stem of rubrīcāre, f. rubrīca rubric n.]
1. trans. To mark or colour with red; to write, print, or mark in red letters.
1570Foxe A. & M. (ed. 2) 693 The one he doth rubricate, onely with his read letters, the other hee doth rubricate with their owne bloud. 1638Sir T. Herbert Trav. (ed 2.) 90 Curroone rubricates this in the Kalendar of his greatest dangers and deliverances. 1656Blount Glossogr., Rubricate,..to make, or colour red with Oaker. 1849Rock Ch. of Fathers I. 96 Nine crosses are rubricated..in the prayer ‘Per Quem haec omnia’. 1872O. Shipley Gloss. Eccl. Terms 69 Those days which are not rubricated in our Calendar. 1892Athenæum 12 May 624/2 A singularly handsome volume, with all the stage directions and names of characters rubricated.
b. To place in the calendar as a red-letter saint.
1570Foxe A. & M. (ed. 2) 693 Dunstanus, who was rubricated with a duplex festum. 1638Sir T. Herbert Trav. (ed. 2) 33 St. Francis Shyvier the Navarrean Jesuit, who died anno 1552.., and rubricated by Pope Gregory 15.
c. To furnish with rubrics or red-letter headings; to regulate by rubrics. Also transf.
1846J. C. Hare Mission of Comforter (1850) 212 A formal..religion, according to which the thoughts of men were to be clast and rubricated for ever after. 1892S. A. Brooke Early Eng. Lit. II. xiii. 3 The MS. of the Gospels in the Bodleian..is rubricated.
2. intr. To sign by mark instead of name.
After Sp. rubricare: cf. rubric n. 6.
1846R. Ford Gatherings from Spain (1907) 222 Although he could barely write his name, he could rubricate as well as any other Spaniard in Command.
Hence ˈrubricating vbl. n. and ppl. a.
1842Wds. Churchwardens (Cambr. Camd. Soc.) i. 9 They should be painted in large black letters, with all those letters in red which are printed in capitals in the Prayer Book: this is called rubricating. 1884Athenæum 26 April 542/1 Probably the real artist..of the Bayeux tapestry was one of the rubricating draughtsmen whose works on vellum greatly resemble it. 1897Atlantic Monthly LXXIX. 131 The fancy is restricted to the form, the cover, the borders, and the rubricating.
▪ II. † ˈrubricate, ppl. a. Obs. rare.
[ad. L. rubrīcāt-us, pa. pple. of rubrīcāre: see prec.]
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1604R. Parsons 3rd Pt. Three Convers. Eng. 180 The principall [martyrs] are there rubricate, sett forth in redd letters. a1641Spelman Originat. Terms. v. ii. (1684) 63 Other Festivals I enquire not after, as of St. Dunstan and the rest that stand rubricate in old Kalendars. |