Meaning of hic jacet | Babel Free
Examples
“What, in the precincts of the chapel-yard, / Among the knightly brasses of the graves, / And by the cold Hic Jacets of the dead!”
“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.”
“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.”
CEFR level
B2
Upper Intermediate
This word is part of the CEFR B2 vocabulary — upper intermediate level.
This word is part of the CEFR B2 vocabulary — upper intermediate level.
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