Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A making red; specifically, the act of illuminating with red or colored letters, words, etc., as old manuscripts and books.
- noun That which is rubricated, or done in red; a letter, word, or other part of a text separately executed in red, or, in general, in color.
- noun The act of formulating, as a rubric; arranging as or with rubrics.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun A form of
calligraphy , inmedieval manuscripts , in which addedtext was coloured inred
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Examples
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Embellishing a religious text with red letters notes, marginal symbols, above all, directions to the pious is rubrication, from the Latin rubricare, which means “to color red.”
Archive 2008-11-01 Unionpearl 2008
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Embellishing a religious text with red letters notes, marginal symbols, above all, directions to the pious is rubrication, from the Latin rubricare, which means “to color red.”
A to Z: R is for Red Letters Unionpearl 2008
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Two - to five-line spaces for capitals, with guide-letters, in both texts, but no rubrication.
Catalogue of the William Loring Andrews Collection of Early Books in the Library of Yale University Addison Van Name
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The rubrication of the present copy is not only elaborate but also of unusual merit.
Catalogue of the William Loring Andrews Collection of Early Books in the Library of Yale University Addison Van Name
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I knew, from conversation with the publication committee, the style of type and rubrication, and could see the cover through the wrapper of my sealed copy.
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Two - to six-line spaces left for initials, but the present copy is without rubrication.
Catalogue of the William Loring Andrews Collection of Early Books in the Library of Yale University Addison Van Name
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On the same evening Mrs. Bassett was disagreeably impressed by Harwood's obvious rubrication in Mrs. Owen's good books.
A Hoosier Chronicle Meredith Nicholson 1906
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I knew, from conversation with the publication committee, the style of type and rubrication, and could see the cover through the wrapper of my sealed copy.
Baxter's Procrustes 1904
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I knew, from conversation with the publication committee, the style of type and rubrication, and could see the cover through the wrapper of my sealed copy.
Baxter's Procrustes Charles Waddell 1904
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As to the question which hymns, early or late, be due to poetic feeling, and which to ritualistic mechanism or servile imitation, this can indeed be decided by a judgment based only on the literary quality, never on the accident of subsequent rubrication.
The Religions of India Handbooks on the History of Religions, Volume 1, Edited by Morris Jastrow Edward Washburn Hopkins 1894
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