Rubric
n rubric Specifically A liturgical direction or injunction in an office-book such as a prayer-book, missal, or breviary; a rule prescribed for the conduct of religious worship, or of any part of a religious service, printed in the Roman Catholic, Greek, and sometimes other office-books in red characters; also, collectively, the body of such rules.
n rubric A flourish after a signature; a paraph. Madre de Dios! the other day she makes me a rubric of the Governor, Pio flor, the same, identical.—[Footnote.] The Spanish rubric is the complicated flourish attached to a signature, and is an individual and characteristic as the handwriting. Bret Harte, Story of a Mine,