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rubricate

[roo-bri-kayt] / ˈru brɩˌkeɩt /


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V. be red, become red &c. adj.; blush, flush, color up, mantle, redden. render red &c. adj.; redden, rouge; rubify†, rubricate; incarnadine.; ruddle†.

From Roget's Thesaurus of English Words and Phrases by Peter Mark Roget

I wish the copy to be done not on tissue paper but on good paper such as is used for plays, and a wide rubricated margin should be left for corrections .

From Selected Prose of Oscar Wilde by Oscar Wilde

There were those specially selected, to insert the rubricated letters and designs of the border page, while others prepared the vellum, or attended to the binding.

From Curious Church Customs and Cognate Subjects by William Andrews

These are folios of April, All the library of spring, Missals gilt and rubricated With the frost's illumining.

From Chimneysmoke by Christopher Morley

The bare fact that hymns are found rubricated in the later literature is surely no reason for believing that such hymns were made for the ritual.

From The Religions of India Handbooks on the History of Religions, Volume 1, Edited by Morris Jastrow by Edward Washburn Hopkins

With good taste, black ink was most frequently selected for the text; red ink was used only for the more prominent words, and the catch-letters, then known as the rubricated letters.

From Bibliomania in the Middle Ages by Frederick Somner Merryweather


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