1. [v]  sign with a mark instead of a name
2. [v]  furnish with rubrics or regulate by rubrics; "the manuscript is not rubricated"
3. [v]  decorate with letters painted red, of manuscripts; "In this beautiful book, all the place names are rubricated"
4. [v]  place in the calendar as a red-letter saint; "She was rubricated by the Pope"

RUBRICATE is a 9 letter word that starts with R.

1. \Ru"bri*cate\, a. [L. rubricatus p. p. of rubricare to
   color red. See {Rubric}, n.]
   Marked with red. --Sp?lmman.
   
   

2. \Ru"bri*cate\, v. t.
   To mark or distinguished with red; to arrange as in a rubric;
   to establish in a settled and unchangeable form. --Foxe.
   
         A system . . . according to which the thoughts of men
         were to be classed and rubricated forever after.
                                                  --Hare.