Aegis vs Rubric - What's the difference?
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A mythological shield associated with Zeus and Athena shown as a short cloak consisting of a goatskin. The aegis of Athena is usually shown with a border of snakes and with the head of Medusa in the center. The aegis is more an emblem of protection and power than an actual military shield.
Protection, guidance. Usually used as ‘under the aegis’ because of its origin as protection of the shield of Athena.
Endorsement.
Sponsorship.
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.
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An established rule or custom, a guideline.
* Hook
* De Quincey
(education) A printed set of scoring criteria for evaluating student work and for giving feedback.
Coloured or marked with red; placed in rubrics.
* Alexander Pope
Of or relating to the rubric or rubrics; rubrical.
To adorn with red; to redden.
As nouns the difference between aegis and rubric
is that aegis is a mythological shield associated with Zeus and Athena shown as a short cloak consisting of a goatskin. The aegis of Athena is usually shown with a border of snakes and with the head of Medusa in the center. The aegis is more an emblem of protection and power than an actual military shield while rubric is a heading in a book highlighted in red.As an adjective rubric is
coloured or marked with red; placed in rubrics.As a verb rubric is
to adorn with red; to redden.aegis
English
(wikipedia aegis)Alternative forms
* , egisNoun
(en-noun)Synonyms
* auspices * patronage * protectionrubric
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Alternative forms
* rubrick (obsolete)Noun
(en noun)- All the clergy in England solemnly pledge themselves to observe the rubrics .
- Nay, as a duty, it had no place or rubric in human conceptions before Christianity.
- (Cowper)
Synonyms
* See alsoAdjective
(en adjective)- What though my name stood rubric on the walls / Or plaistered posts, with claps, in capitals?
Verb
- (Johnson)
