rubific 
The several species of rays, as the rubijick, eerulinck, and 
others. N. Grew, Cosmologia Sacra, ii. 2. 
nitrification (ro"bi-fi-ka'shon). H. [< rubify + 
-atioii (see -fication). Ct. rubcfactioii.] The 
act of making red. 
All the Degrees and Effects of Fire, as distillation, sub- 
limation, . . . rubification, and fixation.' 
Homtl, Letters, ii. 42. 
rubiform (ro'bi-form), a. [< ruby + -form.] 
Having or exhibiting some shade of red ; char- 
acterized by redness. [Bare.] 
Of those rays which pass close by the snow the rubtfmn 
will be the least refracted. Newton. 
rubify (ro'bi-fi), v. t.; pret. and pp. rubified, ppr. 
rubifying. [< F. rubefier = Sp. rubificar = It. 
rubijieare, < L. as if "rubificare, for rubefacere, 
make red, redden, < rubere, be red, + fucere, 
make.] To make red; redden. 
Deep-scarleted, rubified, and carbuncled faces. 
Hassinger, Virgin-Martyr, ii. 1. 
rubiginose (ro-bij'i-nos), . [< LL. rubigino- 
nus, rusty: see rubiginous.'] Having the color 
of iron-vust ; brown-red ; rubiginous ; in bot., 
usually, noting a surface whose peculiar color 
is due to glandular hairs. Treas. of Sot. 
rubiginous (rij-bij'i-nus), a. [< F. rubigineux 
(= Sp. ruginoso = It. rugginoso), < LL. rubigi- 
nosus, robiginosus, < L. rubigo, robigo (-gin-), 
rust : see rubigo. Cf. roinous.] 1. Rusty; hav- 
ing a rusty appearance, as the sputa in some 
cases of pneumonia. Dunglison. 2. In bot. 
and sool., rust-colored; brownish-red; ferru- 
ginous. 3. Affected by rubigo, as a plant. 
rubigo (ro-bi'go), n. [= It. rubigine, < L. ru- 
bigo, robigo, rust, < rubere, be red: see ruby, 
red 1 . Cf. rain.] A kind of rust on plants, con- 
sisting of a parasitic fungus ; mildew. 
rubijervine (ro-bi-jer' vin), n. [< L. rubeus, red, 
+ E.jervine, q. v.] An alkaloid (CgeH^sNOg) 
found in Veratrum album. 
rubint, rnbine 1 t (ro'bin), . [= D. robijn = 
MHG. G. Dan. Sw. rubin = Sp. rubin = Pg. 
rubim (= Buss, rubinu = NGr. povpivt, povunivi), 
< It. rubino, robino, < ML. rubinus, a ruby : see 
ruby, the older and now exclusive E. form.] 
Same as ruby. 
rubine' 2 (ro'bin), n. [< L. rub-eus, rub-er, red, + 
-ine 2 .] An aniline dye: same as fuchsin. 
Rubine S. Same as odd-magenta. 
rubineous (rij-bin'e-us), a. [< rubinei + -ous.] 
In entom., of a glassy or semi-transparent deep- 
crimson red, resembling a ruby, as the eyes of 
an insect; less exactly, in zool., of any bright, 
rich, or vivid red: as, the rubineous flycatchers 
(Pyrocephalus). 
rubioust (ro'bi-us), a. [More prop, "rubeoun; 
= Sp.rubio = Pg. ruico = 1i. robbio, < L. rubeus, 
ML. also rubius, red, reddish: see red 1 . Cf. 
rouge.'] Bed. 
Diana's lip 
Is not more smooth and ruinous. 
Shak., T. N., i. 4. 32. 
rubiretin (ro-bi-ret'in), . 
Gr. pr/Tivri, resin : 
see resin.} A resi- 
nous coloring mat- 
ter (C7HqO 2 ), iso- 
rueric with ben- 
zoic acid, existing 
in madder, and 
formed from ru- 
bian under the in- 
fluence of acids or 
of a soluble fer- 
ment found in 
madder. 
rub-iron (rub'i*- 
ern), n. A plate 
attached to a car- 
riage- or wagon- 
bed to protect it 
from abrasion by 
a fore wheel when 
making a sharp 
turn ; a wheel- 
guard or wheel- 
guard plate. 
ruble (ro ' bl), n. 
[Also rouble (as 
F.); early mod. E. 
also rubble, roble ; 
= F. rouble = G. 
Dan. Sw. rubel = 
NGr. povpltov, < 
[< L. rubeus, red, + 
Reverse. 
Ruble. 1862 British Museum. 
(Size of the original.) 
Buss. rubK, a ruble (100 copecks); generally 
explained as lit. 'a piece cut off,' < rubiti, cut; 
but perhaps derived, through Turk., < Pers. 
5255 
riipiya, rupee : see rupee.] A silver coin of Bus- 
sia, current since the seventeenth century. The 
ruble of the present day, the legal unit of money in Rus- 
sia, is equal to about :is. Zd. English, or 77 United States 
cents. Little actual coin, however, now circulates in 
Russia, paper money of the nominal value of 100, 26, 10, 
5, S, and 1 rubles taking its place. The paper ruble is 
discounted at about 50 cents. 
rubric (ro'brik), n. and a. [< ME. rubricke, ru- 
brik, rubrike, rubryke, robryk, rubriche, roberycli, 
rubryce, rubrysshe, < OF. rubriche, rebriche, ru- 
brique, F. rubrique (= Pr. Sp. Pg. It. rubrica = 
D. rubriek = G. Sw. Dan. rubrik), < L. rubrica, 
red ocher, red earth, the title of a law written 
in red, a law, ML. (ecel.) a rubric; fern. (sc. 
terra, earth) of "rubricus, red, < ruber, red : see 
red 1 .] I. n. 1. Bed ocher; red chalk; reddle. 
[Obsolete or archaic.] 
Take rubrik poured in sum litel shelle, 
And therwithall the bak of every bee 
A pensel touche as thai drynk atte the welle. 
Palladius, Husbondrie (E. E. T. S.), p. 14. 
The same in sheeps milke with rubricke and soft pitch, 
drunke every day or eaten to your meate, helpeth the 
ptisicke and obstructions. 
Topsell, Beasts (1607), p. 132. (HalKwell.) 
Once a dwelling's doorpost marked and crossed 
In rubric by the enemy on his rounds 
As eligible, as fit place of prey, 
Baffle him henceforth, keep him out who can ! 
Browning, Ring and Book, I. 74. 
2. In old manuscripts and printed books, and 
still sometimes in the latter, some small part 
distinguished from the rest of the matter by 
being written or printed in red, as an initial 
letter, a title or heading, a liturgical direction, 
etc. 
These rubrics [initial letters written with minium or 
red lead], as they were called, gradually received many 
fanciful adornments at the hands of the illustrators. 
Amer. Cyc., XI. 599. 
3. Anything of a kind which in manuscripts 
or books it was formerly customary to put in 
red, as the title of a subject or division, the 
heading of a statute, a guiding rule or direc- 
tion, the first letter of a chapter, etc. 
After thy text, ne after thy rubriche, 
I wol not wirche as mochel as a gnat. 
Chaucer, Prol. to Wife of Bath's Tale, 1. 34. 
They [Flacius's "Centuries"] divide the material by 
centuries, and each century by a uniform Procrustean 
scheme of not less than sixteen rubrics. 
Schaff, Hist. Christ. Ch., I. 7. 
Specifically 4. A liturgical direction or in- 
junction in an office-book such as a prayer- 
book, missal, or breviary; a rule prescribed 
for the conduct of religious worship, or of any 
part of a religious service, printed in the Bo- 
man Catholic, Greek, and sometimes other of- 
fice-books in red characters; also, collectively, 
the body of such rules. 
They had their particular prayers, according to the sev- 
eral days and months; and their tables or rubricks to in- 
struct them. Stittingjleet. 
Our obligations to observe the rubric, how indispensable 
soever, are subject to this proviso. 
Hook, Church Diet., p. 668. 
For processions, . . . the rubrics according to the Salis- 
bury Use direct the chief celebrant, at least, to have on a 
cope. Rock, Church of our Fathers, ii. 45. 
5. A flourish after a signature; a paraphe. 
Madre de Dios ! the other day she makes me a rubric 
of the Governor, Pio Pico, the same, identical. [Foot- 
note.] The Spanish rubric is the complicated nourish at- 
tached to a signature, and is as individual and characteris- 
tic as the handwriting. Bret Harte, Story of a Mine, p. 39. 
Ornaments rubric. See ornament. 
H. a. 1. Bed; of a red or reddish color. 
What though my name stood rubric on the walls, 
Or plaster'd posts, with claps, in capitals? 
Pope, Prol. to Satires, 1. 215. 
2. Pertaining to rubrics; made the subject of 
a rubric ; rubrical ; marked in red characters. 
I don't know whether my father won't become a rubric 
martyr, for having been persecuted by him. 
Walpole, To Mann, Dec. 1, 1754. 
Rubric lakes, the pigments of various colors commonly 
known as madder lakes. 
rubric (ro'brik), r. t. ; pret. and pp. rubricked, 
ppr. rubrickint/. [ME. "rubrichen, rubrisshen, 
rubrycen, < OF. rnbrieher, F. rubriquer = Sp. 
Pg. rubricar = It. rubrieare ; < L. rubrioare, 
color red, < rubrica, red earth, red ocher: see 
rubric, .] 1. To adorn with red; rubricate. 
Johnson. 
Item, for rubrissheyng of all the booke, . . . iiis. iiijd. 
Paston Letters, II. 335. 
2. To make the subject of a rubric ; enjoin ob- 
servances regarding, as a saint of the calendar. 
Stretching his [the Pope's] arm to heaven, in rubrickiny 
what saints he list ; to hell, in freeing what prisoners he 
list. Ken. T. Adams, Works, II. 255. rubrisshet, r. See niliric, c. 
rubrisshe 
rubrical (ro'bri-kal), (I. [< rubric + -a I.] 1. 
Same us rubric, 1. 
You thus persecute ingenuous men over all your booke, 
with this one over-tir'd rubricall conceit still of blushing. 
Milton, On Def. of Humb. Remonst. 
2. Of, pertaining to, or contained in a rubric or 
rubrics : as, a rubrical direction. 
rubricality (ro-bri-kal'i-ti), H.; pi. rubricnlitit'x 
(-tiz). [< rubrical + -iffy.] The character of 
being rubrical ; that which is rubrical ; a mat- 
ter having relation to rubrics or ritual ; agree- 
ment with a rubric or rubrics. 
" Where have you been staying?" " With young Lord 
Vieuxbols, among high art and painted glass, spade farms 
and model smell-traps, rubricalitifB and sanitary reforms." 
Kingsley, Yeast, vi. (Dames.) 
rubrically (ro'bri-kal-i), adv. In a rubrical 
manner; according to a rubric or the rubrics; 
over-conventionally or -formally. [Bare.] 
A lady-like old woman, . . . slight of figure, and rubri- 
cally punctual in her uprisings and downsittings. 
J. S. Le Fanu, Tenants of Mallory, 1. 
rubricate (ro'bri-kat), . t. ; pret. and pp. ru- 
bricated, ppr. rubricating. [< L. rubricatus, pp. 
of rubrieare, color red: see rubric, v.'] 1. To 
mark or distinguish with red; illuminate with 
red letters, words, etc., as a manuscript or book. 
See rubrication and rubricator. 
Curroone rubricates this in the Kalendar of his greatest 
dangers and deliverances. 
Sir T. Herbert, Travels into Africa (ed. 1638), p. 90. 
There [on an old map of Burma] we see rubricated not 
only Ava, but Pochang. Quarterly Rev., CLXII. 217. 
2. To formulate as a rubric ; arrange as ru- 
brics or precepts ; provide with rubrics. 
A system . . . according to which the thoughts of men 
were to be . . . rubricated forever after. Hare. (Webster.) 
Rubricated letters or matter, capital letters or sepa- 
rate words or lines written or printed in red. 
rubricate (ro'bri-kat), a. [< L. rubricatus: see 
the verb.] Bepresented in red; having red 
coloring, in whole or in part. 
Other festivals I enquire not after, as of St Dunstan's, 
and the rest that stand rubricate in the old Kalendars. 
Spelman, Orig. of Terms, ii. 
rubrication (ro-bri-ka'shon), n. [= Sp. rubri- 
cacion = It. rubricazione ; "< ML. *rubricatio(n-), 
< L. rubrieare, color red: see rubricate.} 1. 
A making red; specifically, the act of illumi- 
nating with red or colored letters, words, etc., 
as old manuscripts and books. 2. That which 
is rubricated, or done in red; a letter, word, or 
other part of a text separately executed in red, 
or, in general, in color. 
These are but a few of the subjects of these fine rubri- 
cations of the "Book of Wedding Days." 
Athenteum, No. 3236, p. 603. 
3. The act of formulating, as a rubric ; arrang- 
ing as or with rubrics. 
rubricator (ro'bri-ka-tor), H. [= F. rubricateur 
= Pg. rubricador = It! . rubricatore ; < ML. *ru- 
bricator, < L. rubrieare, color red: see rubri- 
cate.1 One who rubricates ; formerly, a person 
employed to insert red or otherwise colored let- 
ters, words, etc., in the text of a manuscript or 
book. 
The rubricator's work consists of the names of the 
speakers, ... a rule between every speech, and a touch 
upon the initial letter of every line of poetry. 
York Plays, Int., p. xvi. 
We find in a good many MSS. as well as early printed 
books small letters written either in the margin or in the 
blank left for the initial, to guide the rubricator. 
Encyc. Brit., XXIII. 686. 
rubrician (ro-brish'an), n. [< rubric + -ian.] 
One who is versed in or who adheres to the ru- 
bric. Quarterly Bev. (Imp. Diet.) 
rubricist (ro'bri-sist), . [< rubric + -ist.] 
Same as rubrician. 
rubricity (rg-bris'i-ti), . [< L. "rubricus, red 
(see rubric), + -ity.] If. Bedness. 
The rubricity of the Nile. Geddes. (Encyc. Diet.) 
2. The character of being rubrical ; accordance 
with the rubrics; rubricality. 
Rubricit!/ ... is the sheet-anchor of the Church. . . . 
The rubric is explicit here, and settles the case. 
W. A. Butler, Mrs. limber's Raffle, iv. 
rubriCOSC (ro'bri-kos), a. [< L. rubricosus, full 
of red earth or red ocher, < rubrica, red earth, 
red ocher: see rubric.] In hot., marked with 
red, as the thallus of some lichens ; rubricate. 
mbrishert (ro'brish-er), H. [ME., < rubrisslie 
(rubric), v., + -erl.] A painter of ornamental 
or directing letters in early manuscripts. 
Thus in Bruges we find there were . . . Verlichters or 
Rubrishers who probably confined their attention to illu- 
minated capitals. Blades, William Caxton, ix. 
