From en.wiktionary.org:
** English
[2008] [mul=rubric (academic)]
*** Alternative forms
- [en] [obsolete]
*** Etymology
[en] From [en], [enm], from [en], from [en], the substance used to make red
letters, from [la], from [en].
*** Pronunciation
- [en]
- [en]
- [en]
*** Noun
[en-noun]
1. A heading in a book highlight ed in red .
2. A title of a category or a class .
3. * [en]
4. [en] The directions for a religious service, formerly printed in red letters.
5. * {{ quote-text | en | year=1842 | author=w:Walter Hook | title=Church Dictionary
|passage=All the clergy in England solemnly pledge themselves to observe the
RUBRICS.}}
1. An established rule or custom ; a guideline .
2. * 1847-1848 , [Thomas De Quincey] , "Protestantism", in _Tait's Edinburgh Magazine_
3. *: Nay, as a duty, it had no place or RUBRIC in human conceptions before Christianity.
4. * [Progress of Error]
5. A statement of intent .
6. * [author=Damian Carrington]
7. [en] A set of explanatory notes or rules at the beginning of an exam paper , usually typographically distinct from the rest of the paper.
8. * [en]
9. [en] A set of scoring criteria for evaluating student work and for giving feedback.
10. A flourish after a signature .
11. Red ochre .
**** Synonyms
- [flourish after signature] [en]
- See also Thesaurus:class
**** Derived terms
- [en]
**** Related terms
- [en]
- [en]
**** Translations
[heading in a book highlighted in red]
- Chinese:
- Finnish: [fi] , [fi]
- German: [de]
- Indonesian: [id]
- Irish: [ga] , [ga] , [ga]
- Latin: [la]
- Latvian: [lv]
- Romanian: [ro]
- Russian: [ru] , [ru]
- Spanish: [es]
- Swedish: [sv]
[trans-bottom]
[category or classification]
- Afrikaans: [af]
- Bulgarian: [bg]
- Czech: [cs]
- Dutch: [nl]
- Esperanto: [eo]
- Finnish: [fi]
- French: [fr]
- German: [de]
- Hungarian: [hu]
- Latvian: [lv]
- Portuguese: [pt] , [pt]
- Russian: [ru] , [ru]
[trans-bottom]
[established rule or custom, a guideline]
- Afrikaans: [af]
- Finnish: [fi] , [fi]
- Indonesian: [id]
- Lithuanian: [lt]
- Maori: [mi]
- Spanish: [es]
[trans-bottom]
[printed set of scoring criteria]
- Afrikaans: [af]
- Finnish: [fi] , [fi] [plural] , [fi] , [fi]
- German: [de]
- Indonesian: [id]
- Italian: [it]
- Portuguese: [pt]
- Spanish: [es] , [es]
[trans-bottom]
*** Adjective
[en-adj]
1. Coloured or marked with red ; placed in rubric s.
2. * [lines=210–211]
3. Of or relating to the rubric or rubrics; rubrical .
*** Verb
[rubrics]
1. [en] To adorn with red ; to redden .
2. * [en]
3. [en] To organize or classify into rubrics.
**** Further reading
- [R:Webster 1913]
- [R:Century 1911]