See Also: rubric(medicine)
rubric(dictionary)
rubric(dictionary)
RUBRIC, civil law(law)

pachycephalosaur (iou) and rubric (medicine)


pachycephalosaur (iou)



pachycephalosaur noun. L20.
[from mod Latin Pachycephalosaurus (see below), formed as PACHY- + CEPHALO- + saurus (see -SAUR).]
Palaeontology. A bipedal herbivorous dinosaur of the late Cretacean infraorder Pachycephalosauria (and spec. of the genus Pachycephalosaurus), members of which were characterized by thick dome-like skulls.

rubric (medicine)


rubric


That part of any work in the early manuscripts and typography which was coloured red, to distinguish it from Other portions. Hence, specifically:

A titlepage, or part of it, especially that giving the date and place of printing; also, the initial letters, etc, when printed in red.

The directions and rules for the conduct of service, formerly written or printed in red; hence, also, an ecclesiastical or episcopal injunction; usually in the plural. "All the clergy in England solemnly pledge themselves to observe the rubrics." (Hook)

Hence, that which is established or settled, as by authority; a thing definitely settled or fixed. "Nay, as a duty, it had no place or rubric in human conceptions before Christianity." (De Quincey) category, class, classification under the rubric of, (See def. (b)) in the category of

Origin: OE. Rubriche, OF. Rubriche, F. Rubrique (cf. It. Rubrica), fr. L. Rubrica red earth for colouring, red chalk, the title of a law (because written in red), fr. Ruber = red. See red.

Source: Websters Dictionary