rubricとは意味・読み方・使い方

別の表記

• rubrick (廃れた用法)

語源

From Middle English rubrich, rubrik, from Old French rubrique, from Latin rubrīca (“red ochre”), the substance used to make red letters, from ruber (“red”), from Proto-Indo-European *h₁rewdʰ-.

発音

• IPA^(key): /ˈɹuːbɹɪk/

名詞

rubric (複数形 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.

   • 2008, Chris Dodd, Senator Dodd Speaks in Opposition to FISA Bill on Floor of U.S. Senate:

     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.”

3. (Christianity) The directions for a religious service, formerly printed in red letters.
   • 1842, Walter Hook, Church Dictionary

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

4. An established rule or custom; a guideline.
   • 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.

   • 1782, William Cowper, “Progress of Error”, in Poems, London: […] J[oseph] Johnson, […], OCLC 1029672464:

     Let Comus rise Archbishop of the land;
     Let him your rubric and your feasts prescribe

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

同意語

• See also Thesaurus:class

関連する語

• rubricate
• rubicund

形容詞

rubric (comparative more rubric, superlative most 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.

動詞

rubric (三人称単数 現在形 rubrics, 現在分詞 rubricking, 過去形および過去分詞形 rubricked)

1. (transitive) To adorn with red; to redden.
   • 1681, Paul Rycaut, The Critick, translation of original by Lorenzo Gracián:

     That Cavalier who Rubricks his Executions with the Bloud he hath drawn by the instrument of Extortion from the Poor.