rubricizev.
/ˈruːbrᵻsʌɪz/, U.S. /ˈrubrəˌsaɪz/ transitive. To provide with or write as a rubric or rubrics; to categorize.
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1882 Dickinson's Theol. Q. Apr. 164 Confessional dogmas have been made the categories under which a pantheistic philosophy has been rubricized.
1920 J. R. Harris & V. Burch Testimonies ii. vii. 65 There is no reason to alter the opinion that the Testimony material should be rubricized.
1955 Jrnl. Egyptian Archaeol. 41 13 The motive for rubricizing columns throughout this text is often obscure.
2001 D. Pushkin Teacher Training xi. 189 American education is guilty of rubricizing itself and teachers.
Derivatives
ˈrubricizing n. and adj.
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1951 G. W. Allport in T. Parsons & E. A. Shils Toward Gen. Theory Action iv. i. 367 Grouping, constellating, rubricizing leap far ahead of experience.
1971 T. Tanner in A. Hoberek Twilight of Middle Class (2005) Introd. 22 He has the power to resist and perhaps disturb the particular ‘rubricizing’ tendency of the language he has inherited.
1998 Studien zur Altägyptischen Kultur 25 325 Such rubricizing can be traced back to the Middle Kingdom.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2011; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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