Definitions for rubrics

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rubrics ru·bric

Spelling: [roo-brik]

IPA: /ˈru brɪk/

Rubrics is a 7 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 10 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 13 points.

You can make 103 anagrams from letters in rubrics (bcirrsu).

Definitions for rubrics

noun

1. a title, heading, direction, or the like, in a manuscript, book, statute, etc., written or printed in red or otherwise distinguished from the rest of the text.
2. a direction for the conduct of divine service or the administration of the sacraments, inserted in liturgical books.
3. any established mode of conduct or procedure; protocol.
4. an explanatory comment; gloss.
5. a class or category.
6. Archaic. red ocher.

adjective

1. written, inscribed in, or marked with or as with red; rubrical.
2. Archaic. red; ruddy.

Origin of rubrics

1325-75; Latin rūbrīca red ocher (derivative of ruber red¹); replacing Middle English rubriche, rubrike (noun) Old French

Examples for rubrics

This rubric he adhered to his life long, despite his change of spiritual base.

How this rubric got into the Prayer-Book it is impossible to say.

Hodder's ideals—if he had only known—transcended the rubric.

Shall the rubric preceding the Creed be removed from the Prayer-book?

It is within this rubric that Romney utters the line in which his campaign is about “saving the soul of America.”

Cut to popular programs are just put under this Function 920 rubric, which allows them to pretend they're not real.

Bain Capital and its ilk were called leveraged buyout firms back then, but whatever the rubric, the business is the same.

I asked her once what was the great attraction of that volume, and she said 'the rubric.'

But for some center-right media outlets, this probably fit into the "too good to check" rubric.

All of this was presented under the rubric of "comedy," but—as with everything that Kovacs conceived—it plays as much, much more.