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rubric

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1. rubric - Noun

2. rubric - Adjective

3. rubric - Verb

Meaning

That part of any work in the early manuscripts and typography which was colored red, to distinguish it from other portions.

A titlepage, or part of it, especially that giving the date and place of printing; also, the initial letters, etc., when printed in red.

The title of a statute; -- so called as being anciently written in red letters.

The directions and rules for the conduct of service, formerly written or printed in red; hence, also, an ecclesiastical or episcopal injunction; -- usually in the plural.

Hence, that which is established or settled, as by authority; a thing definitely settled or fixed.

To adorn ith red; to redden; to rubricate.

Alt. of Rubrical

Source: Webster's dictionary

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What I mean is that none of my talents had a - what's that great word - rubric. A singer, an actor, a dancer - there was nothing I could really say I was. The writing came much later. And, actually, thank God, because if I had said I'm a singer, I would really have just had one thing to do. Steve Martin

Under the rubric of conservatism, the Republican party of Bush I and II has been reinventing itself into what conservatives would have once recognized as a Rockefeller party reciting Reaganite rhetoric. Pat Buchanan

I always accepted the libertarian position of minimum regulation in the sale and use of firearms because I placed guns under the beneficial rubric of minimal restrictions on individuals. Michael Shermer

it is usually discussed under the rubric of `functional obesity' Source: Internet

Title 8 provided federal help for schools Source: Internet

An elimination rubric might run 8-4-2; eight poets in the first round, four in the second, and two in the last. Source: Internet

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