1. Place in the church calendar as a red-letter day honouring a saint
   "She was rubricated by the pope"
    
2. Furnish with rubrics or regulate by rubrics
   "the manuscript is not rubricated"
    
3. Decorate (manuscripts) with letters painted red
   "In this beautiful book, all the place names are rubricated";
   - miniate
    
4. Sign with a mark instead of a name
   "He rubricated the document with his personal seal"

Derived forms: rubricating, rubricates, rubricated

Type of: arrange, format, illuminate, recognise [Brit], recognize, sign, subscribe [formal]

Encyclopedia: Rubricate