单词 | rubricity |
释义 | rubricityn.ΘΚΠ the world > matter > colour > named colours > red or redness > making or becoming red > [noun] > becoming red reddingOE blushing1581 rubescence1799 rubricity1800 1800 A. Geddes Crit. Remarks Hebrew Script. I. 183 The periodical feculency and rubricity of the Nile happen in July and October. 1850 W. L. Tizard Theory & Pract. Brewing Illustr. (ed. 3) vii. 211 In case of the red appearance, another portion of the test liquor is drawn and added in the short glass, and thus the amalgamation is repeated till the rubricity no longer obtains. 2. The observance of liturgical rubrics. Now rare. ΘΚΠ society > faith > worship > observance, ritual > rule, rubric > [noun] > conformity to uniformity1549 rubricity1846 1846 Knickerbocker June 486 Can you tell me how it is that Rubricity and rubicundity should be so inseparable? 1876 W. A. Butler Mrs. Limber's Raffle iv Rubricity..is the sheet-anchor of the Church... The rubric is explicit here, and settles the case. 1885 Church Times 20 Mar. 220/1 Nobody..ever questioned their regularity and (pardon the word) ‘rubricity’. 1914 Amer. Eccl. Rev. May 565 Considered in that light, it cannot but find favor with many priests who experience a quasi-instinctive horror for rubricity. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2011; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1800 |
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