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rubric
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Rubric \Ru"bric\, n. [OE. rubriche, OF. rubriche, F. rubrique ( cf. it. rubrica), fr. L. rubrica red earth for coloring, red chalk, the title of a law (because written in red), fr. ruber red. See red .] That part of any work in the early manuscripts and ...
Usage examples of rubric.
Before this, at about a quarter to seven, the Archdeacon was in the habit of saying Morning Prayer publicly, as he was required to do by the rubrics.
The Archdeacon knew this, and knew too that his guest and substitute would rather have been talking about his own views on the ornaments rubric than about the parishioners.
It was easy to picture him as a short, bespectacled physics teacher, one whose utter lack of physical assurance would prompt such curial devotion to the rubrics of the actual.
The leaves of the volume with rubric unwrit, The temple in times without prayer, without praise, The altar unset and the candle unlit.
If this suspicion was well founded, then Lincoln, under the rubric of Union, was secretly plotting abolition, which to Breck meant not only permanent disunion, but two hostile powers on the same continent.
Early in the XVIIIth dynasty scribes began to write the titles of the Chapters, the rubrics, and the catchwords in red ink and the text in black, and it became customary to decorate the vignettes with colours, and to increase their size and number.
Experience and instinct combined to send him after the right indices, the right permutations, the right rubrics, the right depths.
He finished reading the Gospel with a dramatic flourish, kissed the book according to the rubric, although perfunctorily, as if embarrassed, then turned to face the people again, his simple white chasuble hissing to keep up with his brisk, staccato movements.
The rubric says in the most forcible manner that the owner of the blade, 'in vaginam', shall be one.
The quantity of such non-classified papers within that rubric amounted, daily, to the gool that threatened to burst the sea wall of bureaucracy itself.
Obviously this is the rubric for Blish's Black Easter (*), Keith Laumer's Kafkaesque "In the Queue" (*) and much of the work of Brian Aldiss, J.