Anagrams of: RUBRICATED

• place in the church calendar as a red-letter day honoring a saint

• furnish with rubrics or regulate by rubrics

• decorate (manuscripts) with letters painted red

• sign with a mark instead of a name

• a binary compound of carbon with a more electropositive element

• a purplish dye obtained from orchil lichens

• any of various birds of the Australian region whose males build ornamented structures resembling bowers in order to attract females

• North American songbird whose call resembles a cat's mewing

• having bracts

• combine with carbon

• a very prickly woody vine of the eastern United States growing in tangled masses having tough round stems with shiny leathery leaves and small greenish flowers followed by clusters of inedible shiny black berries

• take away to an undisclosed location against their will and usually in order to extract a ransom

• pull away from the body

• positioned so as to be ready for confrontation or danger

• held up by braces or buttresses