different between rubricate vs rubric

English

Etymology

Latin rubricatus, past participle of rubricare (“to colour red”). See rubric.

Adjective

rubricate (comparative more rubricate, superlative most rubricate)

1. (obsolete) Marked with red.

Verb

rubricate (third-person singular simple present rubricates, present participle rubricating, simple past and past participle rubricated)

1. (transitive) To write in the form of a rubric.
2. To create rubrication; to illuminate a manuscript with red letters.

Anagrams

• bicrurate

Latin

Verb

rubr?c?te

1. second-person plural present active imperative of rubr?c?

English

Alternative forms

• rubrick (obsolete)

Etymology

From Middle English rubrich, rubrik, from Old French rubrique, from Latin rubr?ca (“red ochre”), the substance used to make red letters, from ruber (“red”), from Proto-Indo-European *h?rewd?-.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /??u?b??k/

Noun

rubric (plural rubrics)

1. A heading in a book highlighted in red.
2. A title of a category or a class.

   That would fall under the rubric of things we can ignore for now.
3. (Christianity) The directions for a religious service, formerly printed in red letters.
   • 1842, Walter Hook, Church Dictionary

     All the clergy in England solemnly pledge themselves to observe the rubrics.

4. An established rule or custom; a guideline.
   • 1847,Thomas De Quincey, Protestantism (published in Tait's Edinburgh Magazine)

     Nay, as a duty, it had no place or rubric in human conceptions before Christianity.

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5. (education) A set of scoring criteria for evaluating student work and for giving feedback.
6. A flourish after a signature.
7. Red ochre.

Synonyms

• See also Thesaurus:class

Related terms

• rubricate
• rubicund

Translations

Adjective

rubric (comparative more rubric, superlative most rubric)

1. Coloured or marked with red; placed in rubrics.
2. Of or relating to the rubric or rubrics; rubrical.

Verb

rubric (third-person singular simple present rubrics, present participle rubricking, simple past and past participle rubricked)

1. (transitive) To adorn with red; to redden.

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Further reading

• rubric in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
• rubric in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.