Saturday, December 27, 2014

Word of the Day

rubricate
 \ ROO-bri-keyt \, verb;  
1.to mark or color with red.
2.to furnish with or regulate by rubrics.

Quotes:
All 'blue-blacks' were an abomination to my Daemon, and I never found a bottled vermilion fit to rubricate  initials when one hung in the wind waiting.
-- Rudyard Kipling, Something of Myself for My Friends Known and Unknown , 1937

...You'll rubricate  the hour you find him. You'll leap gladsomely in the air. You'll sing a roundelay.
-- S.S. Van Dine, The Canary Murder Case , 1927

Origin:
Rubricate  came to English in the mid-1500s from the Latin rūbrīcāre  meaning "to color red."

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