rubric
rubric is defined in Webster's Unabridged Dictionary (1913) with 2 senses, and appears in Roget's Thesaurus (1911) with 40 related terms. The full text of each entry is reproduced verbatim below.
Definitions
- 1.Colored in, or marked with, red; placed in rubrics. What though my name stood rubric on the walls Or plaistered posts, with claps, in capitals Pope.
- 2.Of or pertaining to the rubric or rubrics. "Rubrical eccentricities." C. Kingsley.
Source: Webster's Unabridged Dictionary, 1913 edition (public domain, via GCIDE / Project Gutenberg).
Synonyms
Related terms (Roget's 1911)
- act
- agnomen
- all
- and
- antonomasia
- antonym
- baptism
- baptize
- bean
- by-name
- byword
- call
- canon
- cant
- caption
- characterize
- charge
- christen
- clepe
- code
- cognomen
- cognominal
- cognomination
- command
- compellation
- convertible
- corpus
- define
- denominate
- denomination
- description
- designate
- designation
- direction
- distinguish
- dub
- empty
- entitle
- epithet
- eponym
Source: Roget's Thesaurus, 1911 edition (public domain, via Project Gutenberg eBook #10681).
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Sources
- Definitions: Webster's Unabridged Dictionary, 1913 edition (public domain, via GCIDE / Project Gutenberg).
- Synonyms & antonyms: Roget's Thesaurus, 1911 edition (public domain, via Project Gutenberg eBook #10681).
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