Definition of Rubricate

1. Verb. Place in the church calendar as a red-letter day honoring a saint. "She was rubricated by the pope"

Generic synonyms: Recognise, Recognize

2. Verb. Furnish with rubrics or regulate by rubrics. "The manuscript is not rubricated"
Generic synonyms: Arrange, Format

3. Verb. Decorate (manuscripts) with letters painted red. "In this beautiful book, all the place names are rubricated"
Exact synonyms: Miniate
Category relationships: Art, Artistic Creation, Artistic Production
Generic synonyms: Illuminate
Derivative terms: Rubric

4. Verb. Sign with a mark instead of a name.
Generic synonyms: Sign, Subscribe

Definition of Rubricate

1. a. Marked with red.

2. v. t. To mark or distinguished with red; to arrange as in a rubric; to establish in a settled and unchangeable form.

Definition of Rubricate

1. Verb. To write in the form of a rubric ¹

2. Verb. To create rubrication ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Rubricate

1. [v -CATED, -CATING, -CATES]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Rubricate

ruboff
ruboffs
rubor
rubout
rubouts
rubratoxin
rubredoxin
rubredoxin-NAD+ reductase
rubredoxin-oxygen oxidoreductase
rubredoxins
rubrene
rubriblast
rubric
rubrical
rubrically
rubricate (current term)
rubricated
rubricates
rubricating
rubrication
rubrications
rubricator
rubricators
rubrician
rubricians
rubricity
rubrick
rubrics
rubricyte
rubrobulbar tract

Literary usage of Rubricate

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Acts and Monuments of John Foxe: With a Life of the Martyrologist, and by John Foxe, George Townsend (1844)
"... than any other of his new shrined saints, whom he hath so dignified in his calendar ; for the one he doth rubricate only with his red letters, ..."

2. Gatherings from Spain by Richard Ford (1846)
"Although he could barely write his name, he could rubricate * as well as any ... Those who cannot write rubricate; " No saber firmar,"—not to know how to ..."

3. Translation of the Civil Code in Force in Cuba, Porto Rico, and the Philippines by Cuba, Puerto Rico, Philippines, Spain (1899)
"If the testator writes it in person, he shall rubricate all the sheets and affix his signature at the end, after mentioning all the words corrected, erased, ..."

4. Translation of the Civil Code in Force in Cuba, Porto Rico, and the by Cuba, Puerto Rico, Philippines, Spain (1899)
"If the testator writes it in person, he shall rubricate all the sheets and affix his signature at the end, after mentioning all the words corrected ..."

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