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rubricate
WORDNET DICTIONARY
Verb rubricate has 4 senses
- rubricate(v = verb.social) Array - place in the church calendar as a red-letter day honoring a saint; "She was rubricated by the pope" is one way to recognise, recognize
- rubricate(v = verb.creation) Array - furnish with rubrics or regulate by rubrics; "the manuscript is not rubricated" is one way to arrange, format
- rubricate(v = verb.creation) miniate - decorate (manuscripts) with letters painted red; "In this beautiful book, all the place names are rubricated" is one way to illuminate
- rubricate(v = verb.communication) Array - sign with a mark instead of a name; Array is one way to sign, subscribe
Sample sentence:
Somebody ----s somebody
Sample sentence:
Somebody ----s something
Derived form noun rubric3
Sample sentence:
Somebody ----s something
Sample sentences:
Somebody ----s
Somebody ----s something
CIDE DICTIONARY
Marked with red. Sp [1913 Webster]
rubricate, v. t.
To mark or distinguished with red; to arrange as in a rubric; to establish in a settled and unchangeable form. Foxe. [1913 Webster]
"A system . . . according to which the thoughts of men were to be classed and rubricated forever after."
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OXFORD DICTIONARY
rubricate, v.tr.
1 mark with red; print or write in red.
2 provide with rubrics.
1 mark with red; print or write in red.
2 provide with rubrics.
Derivative
rubrication n. rubricator n.
Etymology
L rubricare f. rubrica: see RUBRIC
ROGET THESAURUS
rubricate
Redness
VB be red, become red, blush, flush, color up, mantle, redden, render red, redden, rouge, rubify, rubricate, incarnadine, ruddle.N redness, red, scarlet, vermilion, carmine, crimson, pink, lake, maroon, carnation, couleur de rose, rose du Barry, magenta, damask, purple, flesh color, flesh tint, color, fresh color, high color, warmth, gules, ruby, carbuncle, rose, rust, iron mold, cinnabar, cochineal, fuchsine, ruddle, madder, Indian red, light red, Venetian red, red ink, annotto, annatto, realgar, minium, red lead, redness, rubescence, rubicundity, rubification, erubescence, blush, red, reddish, rufous, ruddy, florid, incarnadine, sanguine, rosy, roseate, blowzy, blowed, burnt, rubicund, rubiform, lurid, stammell blood red, russet buff, murrey, carroty, sorrel, lateritious, rubineous, rubricate, rubricose, rufulous, rose-colored, ruby-colored, cherry-colored, claret-colored, flame- colored, flesh-colored, peach-colored, salmon-colored, brick-colored, brick-colored, dust-colored, blushing, erubescent, reddened, red as fire, red as blood, red as scarlet, red as a turkey cock, red as a lobster, warm, hot, foxy.
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