rubrican

rubrican (plural rubricans)

1. The member of a religious order who is responsible for seeing that the rubric (directions for a religious service) is followed.

   (Can we find and add a quotation of Arthur Machen to this entry?)

   To this the Rubrican answered "Do you assert that my story, which I have told, is not a moral story?"

   • 1873, J. D. Hilarius, Ceremonial According to the Roman Rite:

     Mer. — Merati. — The Rubrican who has given the above work of Gavantus, with copious notes, &c.

   • 1907, F. Williams, Droll Stories Collected From the Abbeys of Touraine, page 279:

     In this inquiry has assisted me to write the evidence given, Guillaume Tournebouch, rubrican of the chapter, a learned man.

rubrican

1. third-person plural present indicative of rubricar