▪ a category: "such ideas fall naturally under the rubric of postmodernism"
2. a set of instructions or rules.
▪ a direction in a liturgical book as to how a church service should be conducted.
▪ a statement of purpose or function:"art for a purpose, not for its own sake, was his rubric"
Word Originlate Middle Englishrubrish (originally referring to a heading, section of text, etc. written in red for distinctiveness), from Old French rubriche, from Latin rubrica (terra) ‘red (earth or ochre as writing material)’, from the base of rubeus ‘red’; the later spelling is influenced by the Latin form.
