"hic jacet" meaning in English

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      "expansion": "Unadapted borrowing from Latin hīc jacet (“here lies”)",
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  "etymology_text": "Unadapted borrowing from Latin hīc jacet (“here lies”).",
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      "form": "hic jacets",
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  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
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          "ref": "1859, Alfred Tennyson, “Vivien”, in Idylls of the King, page 133",
          "text": "What, in the precincts of the chapel-yard, / Among the knightly brasses of the graves, / And by the cold Hic Jacets of the dead!",
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          "ref": "1872, John Taylor, A Book about Bristol: Historical, Ecclesiastical, and Biographical, from Original Research, page 132",
          "text": "Level with the floor of the middle aisle are brasses of a male and a female figure with a hic jacet inscription denoting that Thomas Rowley, merchant and sheriff, died 33 Jan. 1478 and Margaret his wife, died 1470.",
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        {
          "ref": "1888, Edward Bellamy, Looking Backward: 2000–1887, page 458",
          "text": "Presently, as I observed the wretched beings about me more closely, I perceived that they were all quite dead. Their bodies were so many living sepulchres. On each brutal brow was plainly written the hic jacet of a soul dead within.",
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        "An epitaph (gravestone inscription)."
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        "(archaic) An epitaph (gravestone inscription)."
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  "word": "hic jacet"
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          "ref": "1859, Alfred Tennyson, “Vivien”, in Idylls of the King, page 133",
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          "ref": "1872, John Taylor, A Book about Bristol: Historical, Ecclesiastical, and Biographical, from Original Research, page 132",
          "text": "Level with the floor of the middle aisle are brasses of a male and a female figure with a hic jacet inscription denoting that Thomas Rowley, merchant and sheriff, died 33 Jan. 1478 and Margaret his wife, died 1470.",
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