- mix; blend: [no object] the part of the brain where the senses commingle; [with object] his humanitarian stance was commingled with a desire for survival.
— Oxford Dictionary of English
Author: Dell Deaton
- a heading on a document.
a category: such ideas naturally fall under the rubric of postmodernism. - 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.
- Adjective expressing contempt or disapproval: permissiveness is used almost universally as a pejorative term.
- Noun a word expressing contempt or disapproval: most of what he said was inflammatory and filled with pejoratives.
— Oxford Dictionary of English
- a conception of or belief about something: children have different notions about the roles their parents; I had no notion of what her words meant.
- an impulse or desire, especially one of a whimsical kind: she had a notion to ring her friend at work.
- items used in sewing, such as buttons, pins, and hooks.
— Oxford Dictionary of English
- read (something), typically in a thorough or careful way: he has spent countless hours in libraries perusing art history books and catalogues.
- examine carefully or at length: Laura perused a Caravaggio.
— Oxford Dictionary of English
Medicine: a partial loss of vision or blind spot in an otherwise normal field of vision.
— Oxford Dictionary of English
: man-eater, cannibal
— Merriam-Webster