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nigric

nigric noun: the black text of a liturgical book indicating the text which is to be read out loud by the celebrant.

Noun

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...

Forms of nigric

pluralnigrics

Questions about nigric

What does nigric mean?
Nigric means the black text of a liturgical book indicating the text which is to be read out loud by the celebrant.
What part of speech is nigric?
Nigric is a noun.
What is the plural of nigric?
The plural of nigric is nigrics.

Words near nigric in the dictionary

  1. nigrescences
  2. nigrescent
  3. nigrescigenin
  4. nigress
  5. nigresses
  6. nigric
  7. nigricant
  8. nigrification
  9. nigrified
  10. nigrifies
  11. nigrify

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