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Dec. 22, 2014
Word of the Day

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