Tombstones, so called from the first two words of their inscriptions; “Here lies …”
“By the cold Hic Jacets of the dead.”
Tennyson: Idylls of the King (Vivien).
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Entry taken from Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, edited by the Rev. E. Cobham Brewer, LL.D. and revised in 1895.
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