rubricate Meaning, Definition & Usage

  1. verb place in the church calendar as a red-letter day honoring a saint
    • She was rubricated by the pope
  2. verb furnish with rubrics or regulate by rubrics
    • the manuscript is not rubricated
  3. verb decorate (manuscripts) with letters painted red
    miniate.
    • In this beautiful book, all the place names are rubricated
  4. verb sign with a mark instead of a name

WordNet

Ru"bri*cate adjective
Etymology
L. rubricatus p.p. of rubricare to color red. See Rubric, n.
Definitions
  1. Marked with red. Splmman.
Ru"bri*cate transitive verb
Definitions
  1. To mark or distinguished with red; to arrange as in a rubric; to establish in a settled and unchangeable form. Foxe.
    A system . . . according to which the thoughts of men were to be classed and rubricated forever after. Hare.

Webster 1913