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Rubric   /rˈubrɪk/   Listen
Rubric

noun
1.
An authoritative rule of conduct or procedure.
2.
An explanation or definition of an obscure word in a text.  Synonym: gloss.
3.
Directions for the conduct of Christian church services (often printed in red in a prayer book).
4.
A heading that names a statute or legislative bill; may give a brief summary of the matters it deals with.  Synonyms: statute title, title.
5.
A title or heading that is printed in red or in a special type.
6.
Category name.
verb
1.
Adorn with ruby red color.



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"Rubric" Quotes from Famous Books



... discovered this addendum, the editor smiled for the first time since his advent, and reported the incident in his next issue, using the rubric, "Why Has the 'Herald' Returned to Life?" as a text for a rousing editorial on "honesty in politics," a subject of which he already knew something. The political district to which Carlow belonged was governed by a limited number ...
— The Gentleman From Indiana • Booth Tarkington
... unpopular—a Lord Lieutenant of the Kingdom?—The patriots who take it on themselves to avenge the injustice done to the country, and to remove evil counsellors from before the King's throne, that it may be henceforward established in righteousness—so I think the rubric runs—cannot fail to ...
— Peveril of the Peak • Sir Walter Scott
... same rubric a simple somatic hysteria like a paralysis and the complications of what are comprised in psychological neurasthenia as so lucidly described in this book, seems at first sight irrational; but so at first appeared the placing together of clinical pictures as unlike as ...
— The Journal of Abnormal Psychology - Volume 10
... witnesses of the correction and comparison with the originals thereof being Miguel Lopez, Francisco de Cocar, and Juan de Gamboa y Lezcano, soldiers in this camp—in testimony whereof I have made my usual signature and rubric. Given at Cubu, the second day of the month of June in the year one thousand five ...
— The Philippine Islands, 1493-1803, Volume II, 1521-1569 • Emma Helen Blair
... 'What am I to do with it?' 'Your Majesty is to carry it, if you please, in your hand.' 'Am I?' she said; 'it is very heavy.' The ruby ring was made for her little finger instead of the fourth, on which the rubric prescribes that it should be put. When the Archbishop was to put it on, she extended the former, but he said it must be on the latter. She said it was too small, and she could not get it on. He said it was right to put it there, and, as ...
— The Greville Memoirs (Second Part) - A Journal of the Reign of Queen Victoria from 1837 to 1852 - (Volume 1 of 3) • Charles C. F. Greville


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