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rubrical, a.|ˈruːbrɪkəl|
Also 7 rubricall.
[f. rubric n. + -al1.]
1. Pertaining to the colour red. rare—1.
1641Milton Animadv. Wks. 1851 III. 240 You thus persecute ingenuous men over all your booke, with this one over-tir'd rubricall conceit still of blushing.
2. Marked by red letters. rare—1.
1666Let. in Harwood Lichfield 1806 442 The 17th Day of..January, (a day ever to be rubrical amongst our City Remembrances).
3. Of or pertaining to liturgical rubrics; conforming to, enjoined by, the rubrics.
a1754Warburton Nature & End Lord's Supper Wks. 1788 V. 552 A lifeless rubrical piety. 1781Warton Hist. Eng. Poetry xxviii. III. 184 As the singing-psalms were never a part of our liturgy, no rubrical directions are any where given for the manner of performing them. 1851Ruskin Stones Ven. I. App. xiii. 377 The want of evangelical, and the excess of rubrical, religion among the tutors. 1870Rock Text. Fabr. i. 85 The rubrical colour for episcopal mitres is white. 1881R. G. Wilberforce Life Bp. Wilberforce II. xiii. 437 How far clergymen were bound to canonical as apart from rubrical obedience.
Hence rubriˈcality, observance of rubrics.
1848Kingsley Yeast vi. Among high art and painted glass,..rubricalities, and sanitary reforms. |