nigric

plural nigrics

1. The black text of a liturgical book indicating the text which is to be read out loud by the celebrant.

   Set alongside the rubrics is the proper text of worship, which because it was generally written in black, I here call the nigrics.

   1973, Raimon Panikkar, Worship and secular man; an essay on the liturgical nature of man, considering secularization as a major phenomenon of our time and worship as an apparent fact of all times. A study towards an integral anthropology, Maryknoll, N.Y.: Orbis Books, page 69