hic jacet
Example Sentences
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It is to be recovered: but that the merit of service is seldom attributed to the true and exact performer, I would have that drum or another, or hic jacet.
From All's Well That Ends Well by Shakespeare, William
May no rude hand deface it, And its forlorn hic jacet!
From Familiar Quotations A Collection of Passages, Phrases, and Proverbs Traced to Their Sources in Ancient and Modern Literature by Bartlett, John
H.J., hic jacet=Here lies;—H.J.S., hic jacet sepultus=Here lies buried.
From Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary (part 4 of 4: S-Z and supplements) by Various
It is a mere finger-point, the hic jacet, the sic itur.
From To Cuba and Back by Dana, Richard Henry
We have seen hic jacet turned into his jacket, in an obituary; that was a trifle; but cart-balance overcomes our gravity!’
From Knickerbocker, or New-York Monthly Magazine, March 1844 Volume 23, Number 3 by Clark, Lewis Gaylord
