Dictionary entry

Rubric (3)

Webster's Dictionary 1913

{ Ru″bric (?), Ru″bric‐al (?) }, a. 1. Colored in, or marked with, red; placed in rubrics.

What though my name stood rubric on the walls

Or plaistered posts, with claps, in capitals? Pope.

2. Of or pertaining to the rubric or rubrics. “Rubrical eccentricities.” C. Kingsley.