1951 G. W. Allport in T. Parsons & E. A. Shils iv. i. 367 Grouping, constellating, rubricizing leap far ahead of experience.
1971 T. Tanner in A. Hoberek (2005) Introd. 22 He has the power to resist and perhaps disturb the particular ‘rubricizing’ tendency of the language he has inherited.
1998 25 325 Such rubricizing can be traced back to the Middle Kingdom.