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What (who) is rubricate - definition
RED LETTERS ADDED FOR EMPHASIS IN A MANUSCRIPT
Rubricator; Rubricated; Rubricate; Rubricating; Red ink
Rubricate
·noun Marked with red.
II. Rubricate ·vt To mark or distinguished with red; to arrange as in a rubric; to establish in a settled and unchangeable form.
rubricate
['ru:br?ke?t]
¦ verb chiefly historical add elaborate, typically red, capital letters or other decorations to (a manuscript).
Derivatives
rubrication noun
rubricator noun
Origin
C16: from L. rubricat-, rubricare 'mark in red', from rubrica (see rubric).
red ink
¦ noun N. Amer. informal financial deficit.
Wikipedia
Rubrication
Rubrication is the addition of text in red ink to a manuscript for emphasis. Practitioners of rubrication, so-called rubricators or rubrishers, were specialized scribes who received text from the original scribe. Rubrication was one of several steps in the medieval process of manuscript making. The term comes from the Latin rubrīcāre, "to color red", the base word being ruber, "red". The practice began in pharaonic Egypt with scribes emphasizing important text, such as headings, new parts of a narrative, etc., on papyri with red ink.
