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Originally appearing in Volume V23, Page 810 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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RUBRIC (Fr. rubrique, See also:Lat. rubrica, Tuber, red)  , in its earliest and See also:original sense, red See also:earth or ochre, ruddle, and hence applied to words written or printed in red lettering, in See also:MSS. or printed books, such as See also:chapter headings, paragraphs, initial letters, &c., thus marking in a distinctive manner that to which See also:attention is to be See also:drawn . The See also:term was also applied to the passages so marked, and more especially to the directions or rules as to the conduct of divine service in liturgical books . This is the See also:chief current usage of the term (see See also:LITURGY) .

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