rubricistn.

1843 Q. Rev. May 257 We do not see that the junction of the services is imperative, and we ourselves have heard them disjoined and separately performed by very accurate Rubricists.

1857 J. Hamilton Lessons from Great Biogr. 195 The stinted and external compliance of the rubricist and rule-monger.

1902 Pilot 7 June 600/2 He was the despair of finicking rubricists.

1977 A. Nocent Liturg. Year Introd. 4 In their eyes, the liturgy had previously been the preserve of sacristans and rubricists.

1997 R. J. Faley in P. K. Hennessy Concert of Charisms iv. 119 In celebrating mass, one had to be more than a rubricist.

1861 J. H. Burton in Blackwood's Mag. June 658/1 Some collectors may be styled Rubricists, being influenced by a sacred rage for books having the contents and marginal references printed in red ink.

1868 J. H. Hinde in Symeon of Durham Opera Pref. p. xiv It induced the rubricist to ascribe to Symeon the matter which follows.

1961 Jrnl. Amer. Musicol. Soc. 14 136 The rubricist of the manuscript did not hesitate to call them antiphons.

1994 Catholic Hist. Rev. 80 122 The frontispiece of the Aeneid..has..an interlinear ‘T’ initially omitted by the rubricist, who thereby set a poor example for grammar students everywhere.