• IPA: /ˈɹuːbɹɪk/

rubric (plural rubrics)

1. A heading in a book highlighted in red.
2. A title of a category or a class.

   That would fall under the rubric of things we can ignore for now.

3. (Christianity) The directions for a religious service, formerly printed in red letters.

   • All the clergy in England solemnly pledge themselves to observe the rubrics.

4. An established rule or custom; a guideline.

   • Nay, as a duty, it had no place or rubric in human conceptions before Christianity.

5. (education) A printed set of scoring criteria for evaluating student work and for giving feedback.
6. A flourish after a signature.
7. Red ochre.

• See also Thesaurus:class

• rubricate
• rubicund

• German: Rubrik
• Russian: ру́брика
• Spanish: rúbrica

• German: Rubrik
• Portuguese: rubrica
• Russian: ру́брика

• Spanish: rúbrica

• Spanish: matriz de evaluación, rúbrica

rubric

1. Coloured or marked with red; placed in rubrics.
   • 1735, [Alexander] Pope, An Epistle from Mr. Pope, to Dr. Arbuthnot, London; Dublin: Re-printed by George Faulkner, bookseller, […], OCLC 6363280 ↗:

     What though my name stood rubric on the walls / Or plaistered posts, with claps, in capitals?

2. Of or relating to the rubric or rubrics; rubrical.

rubric (rubrics, present participle rubricking; past and past participle rubricked)

1. (transitive) To adorn with red; to redden.