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Hic jacet

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Noun
  1. 1
    An epitaph (gravestone inscription). archaic

    "What, in the precincts of the chapel-yard, / Among the knightly brasses of the graves, / And by the cold Hic Jacets of the dead!"

Etymology

Unadapted borrowing from Latin hīc jacet (“here lies”).

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