rubric

A heading in a book highlighted in red.

A title of a category or a class.

That would fall under the rubric of things we can ignore for now.

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.”

The directions for a religious service, formerly printed in red letters.

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

An established rule or custom; a guideline.

Whilst this rubric is not written into law, it should always be followed.

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.

A statement of intent.

The Government's rubric of "caring for communities" is ridiculous.

“It is diabolical for banks and asset managers to invest billions in major fossil fuel companies under the rubric of ‘green investing’ when we need to accelerate investments in non- and low-carbon energy, in carbon efficiency, and in carbon removal technologies,” said Richard Heede at the Climate Accountability Institute.

Coloured or marked with red; placed in rubrics.

VVhat tho' my Name ſtood rubric on the vvalls? / Or plaiſter'd poſts, vvith Claps in capitals?

Of or relating to the rubric or rubrics; rubrical.

To adorn with red; to redden.

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

To organize or classify into rubrics.