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rubricate
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ru·bri·cate  (rbr-kt)
tr.v. ru·bri·cat·ed, ru·bri·cat·ing, ru·bri·cates
1. To arrange, write, or print as a rubric.
2. To provide with rubrics.
3. To establish rules for.

[Late Latin rbrcre, rbrct-, to color red, from Latin rbrctus, rubricated, from rbrca, rubric; see rubric.]

rubri·cation n.
rubri·cator n.

rubricate [ˈruːbrɪˌkeɪt]
vb (tr)
1. (Communication Arts / Printing, Lithography & Bookbinding) to print (a book or manuscript) with red titles, headings, etc.
2. to mark in red
3. to supply with or regulate by rubrics
[from Latin rubricāre to colour red, from rubrīca red earth; see rubric]
rubrication  n
rubricator  n
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Verb1.rubricate - place in the church calendar as a red-letter day honoring a saint; "She was rubricated by the pope"
recognise, recognize - show approval or appreciation of; "My work is not recognized by anybody!"; "The best student was recognized by the Dean"
2.rubricate - furnish with rubrics or regulate by rubrics; "the manuscript is not rubricated"
format, arrange - set (printed matter) into a specific format; "Format this letter so it can be printed out"
3.rubricate - decorate (manuscripts) with letters painted red; "In this beautiful book, all the place names are rubricated"
artistic creation, artistic production, art - the creation of beautiful or significant things; "art does not need to be innovative to be good"; "I was never any good at art"; "he said that architecture is the art of wasting space beautifully"
illuminate - add embellishments and paintings to (medieval manuscripts)
4.rubricate - sign with a mark instead of a name
sign, subscribe - mark with one's signature; write one's name (on); "She signed the letter and sent it off"; "Please sign here"


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The collection is valuable for its attention not only to great writers and literary texts of the early modern period (especially Shakespeare's and Jonson's plays and poems) but also to woodcut illustrations, pamphlets, broadsides, emergent advertising strategies, rubrication, censorship, and propaganda.
3) Yet if much of the material seems little better than competent hack work, the book is a handsome one, carefully copied into double columns with generous use of rubrication and marginal flourishes in green, blue, and red ink, and a series of what were once probably over thirty miniatures, although only five survive.
 
 
 
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