rubrickedadj.
/ˈruːbrɪkt/, U.S. /ˈruˌbrɪkt/ Now chiefly historical.
Rubricated; marked with a rubric or rubrics.With quot. 1764 cf. rubric adj. 1b.
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1728 A. Boyer Royal Dict. (ed. 5) ii. sig. Kkk4v/3 Rubricked, marqué en lettre rouge.
1764 Universal Mag. 34 Suppl. 337/2 What sort of people they are, the rubricked walls at the corner of every street will inform you.
1827 R. Southey Select. from Lett. (1856) IV. 370 What talk there has been about the book, as yet has been chiefly owing to the rubricked copies.
1877 Proc. Grand Chapter of Mississippi 100 The proceedings of this Grand Chapter..come to us in a handsome, red-lined, tinted-paper pamphlet with rubricked title-page.
1904 Literary News Dec. 195/2 The Master's Violin, by Myrtle Reed, set in framed and rubricked pages and daintily clad for a holiday gift,..appeals irresistibly to music lovers.
1948 Speculum 23 569 The codex contains..a single-columned text, divided into 32 numbered and rubricked chapters and written in an excellent tenth-century..minuscule book hand.
1995 R. A. Landes Relics, Apocalypse, & Deceits of Hist. v. 115 The next text..began at the end of the final Amalarius gathering (quire 13) and by quire 14 had dropped the use of rubricked letters.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2011; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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