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Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
hic jacet /hɪk ˈdʒeɪsɛt, ˈjakɛt/

▶noun literary an epitaph.

– origin L., ‘here lies’, the first words of a Latin epitaph.

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