rubric
Speech parts
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
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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.
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.
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.
it is usually discussed under the rubric of `functional obesity'
Title 8 provided federal help for schools
An elimination rubric might run 8-4-2; eight poets in the first round, four in the second, and two in the last.