That part of any work in the early manuscripts and typography which was colored red, to distinguish it from other portions. Hence, specifically:
A titlepage, or part of it, especially that giving the date and place of printing; also, the initial letters, etc., when printed in red.
Hence, that which is established or settled, as by authority; a thing definitely settled or fixed. Cowper. Nay, as a duty, it had no place or rubric in human conceptions before Christianity. De Quincey.
To adorn ith red; to redden; to rubricate. [R.] Johnson.
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