rubric
Part of speech: noun
adj
verb
Morphological type: simple
Topics: Christianity
education
Etymology: From Middle English rubriche, rubrike, from Old French rubrique, from Latin rūbrīca (“red ochre”), the substance used to make red letters, from ruber (“red”), from Proto-Indo-European *h₁rewdʰ-.
Inflected forms:
form: rubrics
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: rubrick
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: more rubric
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most rubric
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: rubrick
pos: adj
tags: alternative
form: rubrics
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: rubricking
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: rubricked
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: rubricked
pos: verb
tags: past
form: rubrick
pos: verb
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: A heading in a book highlighted in red.
pos: noun
gloss: A title of a category or a class.
pos: noun
examples: That would fall under the rubric of things we can ignore for now.
And in one swoop, the Attorney General conceded to the president nearly unlimited power, just as long as he finds a lawyer willing to stuff his actions into the boundless rubric of “defending the country.”
gloss: The directions for a religious service, formerly printed in red letters.
pos: noun
examples: All the clergy in England solemnly pledge themselves to observe the rubrics.
gloss: An established rule or custom; a guideline.
pos: noun
examples: Whilst this rubric is not written into law, it should always be followed.
1847-1848, Thomas De Quincey, "Protestantism", in Tait's Edinburgh Magazine
Nay, as a duty, it had no place or rubric in human conceptions before Christianity.
Let Comus rise Archbishop of the land;
Let him your rubric and your feasts prescribe
Through processes such as “reinforcement learning with human feedback,” which enlists people to grade AI outputs against a rubric, models are guided toward responses that exemplify desired traits.
gloss: A statement of intent.
pos: noun
examples: The Government's rubric of "caring for communities" is ridiculous.
“It is diabolical for banks and asset managers to invest billions in major fossil fuel companies under the rubric of ‘green investing’ when we need to accelerate investments in non- and low-carbon energy, in carbon efficiency, and in carbon removal technologies,” said Richard Heede at the Climate Accountability Institute.
gloss: A set of explanatory notes or rules at the beginning of an exam paper, usually typographically distinct from the rest of the paper.
pos: noun
examples: Do not award marks to candidates who have made rubric errors.
In the first prospectus the rubric on this paper began 'Historical sources and materials and how the historian uses them[…]'
gloss: A set of scoring criteria for evaluating student work and for giving feedback.
pos: noun
examples: We refer to the rubric when marking oral examinations.
gloss: A flourish after a signature.
pos: noun
gloss: Red ochre.
pos: noun
gloss: Coloured or marked with red; placed in rubrics.
pos: adj
examples: VVhat tho' my Name ſtood rubric on the vvalls? / Or plaiſter'd poſts, vvith Claps in capitals?
gloss: Of or relating to the rubric or rubrics; rubrical.
pos: adj
gloss: To adorn with red; to redden.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: That Cavalier who Rubricks his Executions with the Bloud he hath drawn by the instrument of Extortion from the Poor.
gloss: To organize or classify into rubrics.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
Related words: rubricate
rubicund
Derived words: rubrician
rubricism
rubricist
rubrically
rubrication
rubricity
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